Ya (Mongolic)

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

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

Mongolian language

Letter^[2]^{: 14, 17, 24}^[3]^: 546^[4]^: 40–42^[5]^{: 212, 214–15}
y	Transliteration^{[note 1]}
ᠶ‍	Initial
‍ᠶ᠋‍^⟨?⟩ ⟨ ⟩	Medial (syllable-initial)
‍ᠶ‍^⟨?⟩ ⟨ ⟩	Medial (syllable-initial; diphthongs)
—	Medial (syllable-final)
—	Final

Transcribes Chakhar /j/;^[9]^[10] Khalkha /j/.^[11]^: 40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter й.^[7]^[6]
Derived from Old Uyghur yodh (𐽶) originally, and also later in the 19th century from Manchu yodh with an upturn ⟨ᠶ‍⟩ as an initial form.^[12]^: 59^[3]^{: 545, 546}^[4]^: 40
Produced with Y using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.^[13]
In the Mongolian Unicode block, y comes after ǰ and before r.