Da is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.
Mongolian language
LetterTransliterationInitial Medial (syllable-initial) Medial (syllable-final)Final C-V syllables, , , TransliterationAloneInitialMedialFinal Separated suffixes, , Transliteration—WholeInitial Transcribes Chakhar ; Khalkha , and . Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter . Syllable-initially indistinguishable from . When it must be distinguished from medially, it can be written twice, and with both medial forms (as in 'well', compared with 'holy'). Alternatively, a dot is sometimes used to the right of the letter in 19th and 20th century manuscripts. The belly-tooth-shaped form is used before consonants (syllable-final), the other before vowels. Derived from Old Uyghur taw (; initial, belly-tooth-shaped medial, and final) and lamedh (; other medial form). Positional variants of lamedh can be used to clarify the spelling of in words of foreign origin, as in 'doctor' ( ), 'the following, the succeeding' ( ), and 'goods, property' (distinguishing it from 'year', and retained in derivatives such as 'possession' ( ); ). Produced with using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout. In the Mongolian Unicode block, comes after and before .
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Xibe language
Manchu language
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