Ta (Mongolic)

Ta
Ta
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The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
Mongolian consonants
Foreign consonants
	Mongolian script multigraphs;
	v; t; e;

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

Mongolian language

Transcribes Chakhar /t/;^[10]^[11] Khalkha /t/.^[12]^: 40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter т.^[6]^[5]
Syllable-initially indistinguishable from d.^[2]^: 23^[13]^: 9^[10]
Derived from Old Uyghur taw (𐾀; initial) and lamedh (𐽸; medial).^[3]^{: 539–540, 545–546}^[14]^{: 111, 113}^[15]^: 35
Positional variants of initial taw ⟨ᠲ‍/‍ᠲ᠋‍/‍ᠲ⟩ can be used to clarify the spelling of t in words of foreign origin, as in ᠹᠣᠲ᠋ᠣ᠋ foto 'photograph' (фото foto), ᠲᠢᠶᠠᠲ᠋ᠷ tiyatr 'theatre' (театр teatr), and ᠻᠠᠷᠲ khart 'card' (карт kart).^[2]^: 23^[6]^: 48–49^[15]^: 37^[16]
Produced with T using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.^[17]
In the Mongolian Unicode block, t comes after š and before d.