Sa (Mongolic)

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

Mongolian language

Sa
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, 17, 23 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214 
sTransliteration[note 1]
ᠰ‍Initial
‍ᠰ‍Medial (syllable-initial)
Medial (syllable-final)
‍ᠰFinal
C-V syllables[6]: 41 
s‑a, s‑e[7]sa, sesiso, su, Transliteration
ᠰᠠ[a]ᠰᠢᠰᠣ᠋ᠰᠥ᠋Alone
ᠰᠠ‍ᠰᠢ‍ᠰᠣ‍ᠰᠥ‍Initial
‍ᠰᠠ‍‍ᠰᠢ‍‍ᠰᠣ‍Medial
‍ᠰ᠎ᠠ⟨?⟩ ‍ᠰᠠ‍ᠰᠢ‍ᠰᠣFinal
  • Transcribes Chakhar /s/, or /ʃ/ before i;[10]: 58 [11] Khalkha /s/, or /ʃ/ before i. Before a morpheme boundary, however, there is no change of s to /ʃ/ before an i.[10]: 84  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter с.[6][5]
  • Derived from Old Uyghur merged samekh and shin (𐽻 and 𐽿).[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [12]: 111, 113 [13]: 35 
  • Produced with S using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[14]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, s comes after l and before š.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

References