Ja is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.
Mongolian language
Letter ()TransliterationInitialMedial (syllable-initial)—Medial (syllable-final)Final C-V syllables, , , Transliteration Alone——InitialMedialFinal Transcribes Chakhar ; Khalkha , and (Mongolian Cyrillic , and , respectively). Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter . Derived from Old Uyghur yodh (; initial), and Old Uyghur (through early Mongolian) tsade (; medial). 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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