A is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.
Mongolian language
LetterTransliteration—AloneInitialMedialConnected final —Separated final LigaturesTransliterationAloneInitialMedialFinal Separated suffixesTransliteration Initial Whole Transcribes Chakhar ; Khalkha , , and . Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter . Medial and final forms may be distinguished from those of other tooth-shaped letters through: vowel harmony (), the shape of adjacent consonants ( and ), and position in syllable sequence (, , , , ). The final tail extends to the left after bow-shaped consonants (such as , and ), and to the right in all other cases. = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound. = connected galik final. Derived from Old Uyghur aleph (), written twice for isolate and initial forms. Produced with using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout. In the Mongolian Unicode block, comes before .
Clear Script
Xibe language
Manchu language
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