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

Mongolian language

Ra
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
r‑a, r‑e	ra, re	ri	ro, ru	rö, rü	Transliteration
—	ᠷᠠ	ᠷᠢ	ᠷᠣ᠋	ᠷᠥ᠋	Alone
	ᠷᠠ‍	ᠷᠢ‍	ᠷᠣ‍	ᠷᠥ‍	Initial
	‍ᠷᠠ‍	‍ᠷᠢ‍	‍ᠷᠣ‍		Medial
‍ᠷ᠎ᠠ ⟨⟩	‍ᠷᠠ	‍ᠷᠢ	‍ᠷᠣ		Final

• Transcribes Chakhar /r/; Khalkha /r/. Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter р.
• Not occurring word-initially except in loanwords.
• Derived from Old Uyghur resh (𐽾).
• Produced with R using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.
• In the Mongolian Unicode block, r comes after y and before w.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

1. Scholarly transliteration.
2. Not found in native Mongolian words.

References

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• Mongolic letters
• Mongolic languages
• Tungusic languages