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A is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.

Mongolian language

A
The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
ᠠa ᠡe ᠢi ᠣo ᠤu ᠥö ᠦü ᠧ(ē)
Mongolian consonants
ᠨn ᠩng ᠪb ᠫ(p) ᠬq/k ᠭɣ/g ᠮm ᠯl ᠰs ᠱš ᠲt ᠳd ᠴč ᠵǰ ᠶy ᠷr ᠸ(w)
Foreign consonants
Mongolian script multigraphs
v t e

Letter
‑a	a	Transliteration
—	ᠠ	Alone
	ᠠ᠋
	ᠠ‍	Initial
	‍ᠠ‍	Medial
	‍ᠠ	Connected final
᠎ᠠ ⟨⟩	—	Separated final

Separated suffixes
‑a	Transliteration
ᠠ‍ ⟨⟩	Initial
ᠠ ⟨⟩	Whole

• Transcribes Chakhar /ɑ/; Khalkha /a/, /ə/, and /∅/. Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter а.
• Medial and final forms may be distinguished from those of other tooth-shaped letters through: vowel harmony (e), the shape of adjacent consonants (q/k and ɣ/g), and position in syllable sequence (n, ng, q, ɣ, d).
• The final tail extends to the left after bow-shaped consonants (such as b, and p), and to the right in all other cases.
• ‍ᠠ᠋‍ = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.
• ‍ᠠ᠋ ⟨⟩ = connected galik final.
• Derived from Old Uyghur aleph (𐽰), written twice for isolate and initial forms.
• Produced with A using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.
• In the Mongolian Unicode block, a comes before e.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

1. Scholarly transliteration.
2. As in the interjection ᠠ a (аа aa) 'a!, oh!, well!'.
3. As in the exclamation ⟨ᠠ᠋; ⟩ a/e (аа/ээ/оо/өө aa/ee/oo/öö), or interjection ᠡ e (ээ ee) 'oh!'.
4. As in the exclamation ⟨ᠠ᠋; ⟩ a/e (аа/ээ/оо/өө aa/ee/oo/öö).
5. Also used in enumerations, akin to a) or b).
6. As in ᠪᠠ ba (ба ba) 'and'.
7. Separated suffixes starting with, or made up by the letter a include:  ᠠ ‑a (vocative or dative-locative),  ᠠᠴᠠ ‑ača (ablative), and  ᠠᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ‑ačaɣan (reflexive+ablative).

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. ^ Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-00684-2.
3. ^ Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7.
4. ^ "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06.
5. "Mongolian Transliteration & Transcription". collab.its.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
6. ^ Lessing, Ferdinand (1960). Mongolian-English Dictionary (PDF). University of California Press. Note that this dictionary uses the transliterations c, ø, x, y, z, ai, and ei; instead of č, ö, q, ü, ǰ, ayi, and eyi; as well as problematically and incorrectly treats all rounded vowels (o/u/ö/ü) after the initial syllable as u or ü.
7. "PROPOSAL Encode Mongolian Suffix Connector (U+180F) To Replace Narrow Non-Breaking Space (U+202F)" (PDF). UTC Document Register for 2017. 2017-01-15.
8. "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
9. "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
10. Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Tsendina, Anna; Karlsson, Anastasia; Franzen, Vivan (2005-02-10). The Phonology of Mongolian. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-151461-6.
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12. Viklund, Andreas. "Lingua Mongolia - Mongolian Grammar Reference". Lingua Mongolia. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
13. ^ Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
14. Clauson, Gerard (2005-11-04). Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43012-3.
15. jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 2022-05-16.

• Mongolic letters
• Mongolic languages
• Tungusic languages