Ya (Mongolic)

Ya is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.[1]: 549–551 

Mongolian language

Ya
The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
ᠠ​
a
ᠡ​
e
ᠢ​
i
ᠣ​
o
ᠤ​
u
ᠥ​
ö
ᠦ​
ü
ᠧ​
(ē)
Mongolian consonants
ᠨ​
n
ᠩ​
ng
ᠪ​
b
ᠫ​
(p)
ᠬ​
q/k
ᠭ​
γ/g
ᠮ​
m
ᠯ​
l
ᠰ​
s
ᠱ​
š
ᠲ​
t
ᠳ​
d
ᠴ​
č
ᠵ​
ǰ
ᠶ​
y
ᠷ​
r
ᠸ​
(w)
Foreign consonants
Letter[2]: 14, 17, 24 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214 
y Transliteration[note 1]
ᠶ‍ Initial
‍ᠶ‍⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩ Medial (syllable-initial)
‍ᠶ᠋‍⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩
— Medial (syllable-final)
— Final
C-V syllables[6]: 25 
y‑a, y‑e ya, ye yi yo, yu yö, yü Transliteration
— ᠶᠠ ᠶᠢ ᠶᠣ᠋ ᠶᠥ᠋ Alone
ᠶᠠ‍ ᠶᠢ‍ ᠶᠣ‍ ᠶᠥ‍ Initial
‍ᠶᠠ‍ ‍ᠶᠢ‍ ‍ᠶᠣ‍ Medial
‍ᠶ᠎ᠠ⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩ ‍ᠶᠠ ‍ᠶᠢ ‍ᠶᠣ Final
Separated suffixes[note 2]
‑y(...) ‑yi ‑yin ‑yuγan ‑yügen Transliteration
 ᠶᠢ⟨?⟩  ᠶᠢᠨ⟨?⟩ — Whole
—  ᠶᠤᠭᠠᠨ  ᠶᠦᠭᠡᠨ⟨?⟩
  • Transcribes Chakhar /j/;[8][9] Khalkha /j/.[10]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter й.[6][5]
  • The unhooked ⟨ᠶ᠋‍⟩ initial and medial forms are older ones.[3]: 545, 546 [11]: 40 
  • Derived from Old Uyghur yodh (𐽶), through borrowed Manchu hooked yodh.[3]: 545 [12]: 59 
  • Produced with Y using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[13]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, y comes after ǰ and before r.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

    1. Scholarly transliteration.[5]
    2. Separated suffixes starting with the letter y include:  ᠶᠢ⟨?⟩ ‑yi (accusative),  ᠶᠢᠨ⟨?⟩ ‑yin (genitive), and  ᠶᠤᠭᠠᠨ⟨?⟩/ ᠶᠦᠭᠡᠨ⟨?⟩ ‑yuγan/‑yügen (reflexive+accusative).[7]

    References

    1. "The Unicode Standard, Version 14.0 – Core Specification Chapter 13: South and Central Asia-II, Other Modern Scripts" (PDF). www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
    2. Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-00684-2.
    3. Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7.
    4. Bat-Ireedui, Jantsangiyn; Sanders, Alan J. K. (2015-08-14). Colloquial Mongolian: The Complete Course for Beginners. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-30598-9.
    5. "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06.
    6. Skorodumova, L. G. (2000). Vvedenie v staropismenny mongolskiy yazyk Введение в старописьменный монгольский язык (PDF) (in Russian). Muravey-Gayd. ISBN 5-8463-0015-4.
    7. "PROPOSAL Encode Mongolian Suffix Connector (U+180F) To Replace Narrow Non-Breaking Space (U+202F)" (PDF). UTC Document Register for 2017. 2017-01-15.
    8. "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
    9. "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
    10. Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Tsendina, Anna; Karlsson, Anastasia; Franzen, Vivan (2005-02-10). The Phonology of Mongolian. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-151461-6.
    11. Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
    12. Grønbech, Kaare; Krueger, John Richard (1993). An Introduction to Classical (literary) Mongolian: Introduction, Grammar, Reader, Glossary. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-03298-8.
    13. jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
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