Ue (Mongolic)

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

Mongolian language

Ue
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, 20 [3]: 546 
üTransliteration[note 1]
[a]Alone
ᠦ‍Initial
‍ᠦ᠋‍Medial (word-initial syllable)
‍ᠦ‍Medial (subsequent syllables)
‍ᠦFinal
Ligatures[2]: 22–23, 24–25 [3]: 546 
, Transliteration
ᠪᠦᠫᠦᠭᠦ⟨?⟩ ⟨w/o tail⟩[b]Alone
ᠭᠦ᠋⟨?⟩ ⟨w/ tail⟩
ᠪᠦ‍ᠫᠦ‍ᠭᠦ‍Initial
‍ᠪᠦ‍‍ᠫᠦ‍‍ᠭᠦ‍Medial
‍ᠪᠦ‍ᠫᠦ‍ᠭᠦFinal
Separated suffixes[note 2]
‑ü(...)‑ü‑ün‑ügei‑üdTransliteration
 ᠦ⟨?⟩Whole
 ᠦᠨ⟨?⟩ ᠦᠳ⟨?⟩
 ᠦᠭᠡᠢ⟨?⟩
  • Transcribes Chakhar /u/;[9][10] Khalkha /u/, /ə/, and //.[11]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter ү.[12][4]
  • Indistinguishable from ö.[2]: 20 [7]: 9–10 
  • ‍ᠦ᠋ = an alternative final form; also used in loanwords.[13]: 39  Additionally used in native and modern Mongolian ᠰᠦ᠋⟨?⟩ 'milk' (Classical Mongolian ᠰᠦ⟨?⟩ or ᠰᠦᠨ sün).[6]: 741, 744 [13]: 39 
  • The syllable-initial medial form ‍ᠦ᠋‍ is also used in non-initial syllables in proper name compounds,[13]: 44  as well as in loanwords.[citation needed]
  • ‍ᠦ᠌‍ = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.[13]: 44 
  • Derived from Old Uyghur waw (𐽳), followed by a yodh (𐽶) in word-initial syllables, and preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [14]: 111, 113 [13]: 35 
  • Produced with U using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[15]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, ü comes after ö and before ē.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

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