Ra (Mongolic)

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

Mongolian language

Ra
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]: 13–14, 17 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214 
rTransliteration[note 1]
(ᠷ‍)Initial[note 2]
‍ᠷ‍Medial (syllable-initial)
Medial (syllable-final)
‍ᠷFinal
C-V syllables[6]: 14 
r‑a, r‑era, reriro, ru, Transliteration
ᠷᠠᠷᠢᠷᠣ᠋ᠷᠥ᠋Alone
ᠷᠠ‍ᠷᠢ‍ᠷᠣ‍ᠷᠥ‍Initial
‍ᠷᠠ‍‍ᠷᠢ‍‍ᠷᠣ‍Medial
‍ᠷ᠎ᠠ⟨?⟩ ‍ᠷᠠ‍ᠷᠢ‍ᠷᠣFinal
  • Transcribes Chakhar /r/;[7][8] Khalkha /r/.[9]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter р.[6][5]
  • Not occurring word-initially except in loanwords.[2]: 14 
  • Derived from Old Uyghur resh (𐽾).[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [10]: 111, 113 [11]: 35 
  • Produced with R using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[12]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, r comes after y and before w.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

References