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

Mongolian language

U
The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
a
e
i
o
u
ö
ü
(ē)
Mongolian consonants
n
ng
b
(p)
q/k
γ/g
m
l
s
š
t
d
č
ǰ
y
r
(w)
Foreign consonants
Letter[2]:17,19–20[3]:546
u Transliteration[note 1]
Alone
Initial
Medial
Final
Ligatures[2]:22–23[3]:546
bu pu Transliteration
ᠪᠤ ᠫᠤ Alone
ᠪᠤ ᠫᠤ Initial
ᠪᠤ ᠫᠤ Medial
ᠪᠤ ᠫᠤ Final
Separated suffixes[note 2]
u(...) u un ud uruγu Transliteration
? Whole
ᠤᠨ? ᠤᠳ?
ᠤᠷᠤᠭᠤ?
  • Transcribes Chakhar /ʊ/;[6][7] Khalkha /ʊ/, /ə/, and //.[8]:40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter у.[9][4]
  • Indistinguishable from o.[2]:19[10]:9–10
  • = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.[11]:44
  • Derived from Old Uyghur waw (𐽳), preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.[3]:539–540,545–546[12]:111,113[11]:35
  • Produced with V using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[13]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, u comes after o and before ö.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

    1. Scholarly transliteration.[4]
    2. Separated suffixes starting with, or made up by the letter u include: ? u or ᠤᠨ? un (genitive), ᠤᠳ? ud (plural), and ᠤᠷᠤᠭᠤ? uruγu (directive).[5]

    References

    1. "The Unicode Standard, Version 14.0 – Core Specification Chapter 13: South and Central Asia-II, Other Modern Scripts" (PDF). www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
    2. 1 2 3 Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-00684-2.
    3. 1 2 3 Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7.
    4. 1 2 "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06.
    5. "PROPOSAL Encode Mongolian Suffix Connector (U+180F) To Replace Narrow Non-Breaking Space (U+202F)" (PDF). UTC Document Register for 2017. 2017-01-15.
    6. "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
    7. "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
    8. Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Tsendina, Anna; Karlsson, Anastasia; Franzen, Vivan (2005-02-10). The Phonology of Mongolian. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-151461-6.
    9. Skorodumova, L. G. (2000). Vvedenie v staropismenny mongolskiy yazyk Введение в старописьменный монгольский язык (PDF) (in Russian). Muravey-Gayd. ISBN 5-8463-0015-4.
    10. Grønbech, Kaare; Krueger, John Richard (1993). An Introduction to Classical (literary) Mongolian: Introduction, Grammar, Reader, Glossary. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-03298-8.
    11. 1 2 Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
    12. Clauson, Gerard (2005-11-04). Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43012-3.
    13. jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
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