I is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.[1]: 549–551
Mongolian language
Look up ᠢ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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Letter[2]: 17, 19 [3]: 546 | |
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i | Transliteration[note 1] |
ᠢ[a] | Alone |
ᠢ | Initial |
ᠢ | Medial (syllable-initial) |
[b] | Medial (syllable-final) |
ᠢ | Final |
Ligatures[2]: 22–23, 24–25 [3]: 546 | |||
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bi | pi | ki, gi | Transliteration |
ᠪᠢ[c] | ᠫᠢ | ᠬᠢ[d] | Alone |
ᠪᠢ | ᠫᠢ | ᠬᠢ | Initial |
ᠪᠢ | ᠫᠢ | ᠬᠢ | Medial |
ᠪᠢ | ᠫᠢ | ᠬᠢ | Final |
Separated suffixes[note 2] | |
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‑i | Transliteration |
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
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Xibe language
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Manchu language
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Notes
References
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