I (Mongolic)

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

Mongolian language

I
The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
a
e
i
o
u
ö
ü
(ē)
Mongolian consonants
n
ng
b
(p)
q/k
γ/g
m
l
s
š
t
d
č
ǰ
y
r
(w)
Foreign consonants
Letter[2]: 17, 19 [3]: 546 
iTransliteration[note 1]
[a]Alone
ᠢ‍Initial
‍ᠢ‍Medial (syllable-initial)
[b]Medial (syllable-final)
‍ᠢFinal
Ligatures[2]: 22–23, 24–25 [3]: 546 
bipiki, giTransliteration
ᠪᠢ[c]ᠫᠢᠬᠢ[d]Alone
ᠪᠢ‍ᠫᠢ‍ᠬᠢ‍Initial
‍ᠪᠢ‍‍ᠫᠢ‍‍ᠬᠢ‍Medial
‍ᠪᠢ‍ᠫᠢ‍ᠬᠢFinal
Separated suffixes[note 2]
‑iTransliteration
 ᠢ‍⟨?⟩ Initial
 ᠢ⟨?⟩ Whole
  • Transcribes Chakhar /i/ or /ɪ/;[8][9] Khalkha /i/, /ə/, and //.[10]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter и.[11][4]
  • Today, often absorbed into a preceding syllable when at the end of a word.[citation needed]
  • Written medially with the single long tooth after a consonant, and with two after a vowel (with rare exceptions like ᠨᠠ‍ᠢ‍ᠮᠠ naima 'eight' or ᠨᠠ‍ᠢ‍ᠮᠠᠨ naiman 'eight'/tribal name).[2]: 31 [12]: 9, 39 [13]: 38 
  • ‍ᠢ᠋‍ = a handwritten Inner Mongolian variant on the sequence yi (as in ᠰᠠᠶ᠋ᠢᠨ / ᠰᠠᠶᠢᠨ sayin 'good' being written ᠰᠠᠢ᠋ᠨ sain).[12]: 58 [13]: 38 
    • Also the medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.[13]: 44 
  • Derived from Old Uyghur yodh (𐽶), preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [14]: 111, 113 [13]: 35 
  • Produced with I using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[15]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, i comes after e and before o.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

References