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

Mongolian language

La
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

C-V syllables
l‑a, l‑e	la, le	li	lo, lu	lö, lü	Transliteration
—	ᠯᠠ	ᠯᠢ	ᠯᠣ᠋	ᠯᠥ᠋	Alone
	ᠯᠠ‍	ᠯᠢ‍	ᠯᠣ‍	ᠯᠥ‍	Initial
	‍ᠯᠠ‍	‍ᠯᠢ‍	‍ᠯᠣ‍		Medial
‍ᠯ᠎ᠠ ⟨⟩	‍ᠯᠠ	‍ᠯᠢ	‍ᠯᠣ		Final

• Transcribes Chakhar /l/; Khalkha /ɮ/. Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter л.
• Not occurring word-initially in native words.
• Forms a ligature with a preceding bow-shaped consonant in loanwords such as ᠪᠯᠠᠮ᠎ᠠ blam-a 'lama' from Tibetan བླ་མ་ Wylie: bla-ma.
• Derived from Old Uyghur hooked resh (𐾁).
• Produced with L using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.
• In the Mongolian Unicode block, l comes after m and before s.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

1. Scholarly transliteration.
2. Not found in native Mongolian words.
3. As in the intensifying ⟨ᠯᠠ⟩ / ᠡᠯᠡ la/le / ele (л l) particle, or ᠯᠠ la (лаа(н) laa(n)) 'candle'.
4. Separated suffixes starting with the letter l include:  ᠯᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ/ ᠯᠦᠭᠡ ‑luɣ‑a/‑lüge (comitative).

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. Bat-Ireedui, Jantsangiyn; Sanders, Alan J. K. (2015-08-14). Colloquial Mongolian: The Complete Course for Beginners. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-30598-9.
5. ^ "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06.
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8. 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.
9. "PROPOSAL Encode Mongolian Suffix Connector (U+180F) To Replace Narrow Non-Breaking Space (U+202F)" (PDF). UTC Document Register for 2017. 2017-01-15.
10. "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
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12. Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Tsendina, Anna; Karlsson, Anastasia; Franzen, Vivan (2005-02-10). The Phonology of Mongolian. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-151461-6.
13. 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.
14. ^ Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
15. Clauson, Gerard (2005-11-04). Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43012-3.
16. jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 2022-05-16.

• Mongolic letters
• Mongolic languages
• Tungusic languages