I is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.
Mongolian language
LetterTransliterationAloneInitialMedial (syllable-initial)Medial (syllable-final)Final Ligatures, TransliterationAloneInitialMedialFinal Separated suffixesTransliteration Initial Whole Transcribes Chakhar or ; Khalkha , , and . Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter . Today, often absorbed into a preceding syllable when at the end of a word. Written medially with the single long tooth after a consonant, and with two after a vowel (with rare exceptions like 'eight' or 'eight'/tribal name). = a handwritten Inner Mongolian variant on the sequence (as in / 'good' being written ). Also the medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound. Derived from Old Uyghur yodh (), preceded by an aleph () for isolate and initial forms. Produced with using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout. In the Mongolian Unicode block, comes after and before .
Clear Script
Xibe language
Manchu language
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