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

Mongolian language

Ya
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
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Letter
y	Transliteration
ᠶ‍	Initial
‍ᠶ᠋‍ ⟨⟩	Medial (syllable-initial)
‍ᠶ‍ ⟨⟩	Medial (syllable-initial; diphthongs)
—	Medial (syllable-final)
—	Final

C-V syllables
y‑a, y‑e	ya, ye	yi	yo, yu	yö, yü	Transliteration
—	ᠶᠠ	ᠶᠢ	ᠶᠣ᠋	ᠶᠥ᠋	Alone
	ᠶᠠ‍	ᠶᠢ‍	ᠶᠣ‍	ᠶᠥ‍	Initial
	‍ᠶᠠ‍	‍ᠶᠢ‍	‍ᠶᠣ‍		Medial
‍ᠶ᠎ᠠ ⟨⟩	‍ᠶᠠ	‍ᠶᠢ	‍ᠶᠣ		Final

Separated suffixes
‑y(...)	‑yi	‑yin	‑yuɣan	‑yügen	Transliteration
	ᠶᠢ	ᠶᠢᠨ	—		Whole
	—		ᠶᠤᠭᠠᠨ	ᠶᠦᠭᠡᠨ

• Transcribes Chakhar /j/; Khalkha /j/. Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter й.
• Derived from Old Uyghur yodh (𐽶) originally, and also later in the 19th century from Manchu yodh with an upturn ⟨ᠶ‍⟩ as an initial form.
• Produced with Y using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.
• In the Mongolian Unicode block, y comes after ǰ and before r.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

1. Scholarly transliteration.
2. Separated suffixes starting with the letter y include:  ᠶᠢ ‑yi (accusative),  ᠶᠢᠨ ‑yin (genitive), and  ᠶᠤᠭᠠᠨ/ ᠶᠦᠭᠡᠨ ‑yuɣan/‑yügen (reflexive+accusative).

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. ^ Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
5. Bat-Ireedui, Jantsangiyn; Sanders, Alan J. K. (2015-08-14). Colloquial Mongolian: The Complete Course for Beginners. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-30598-9.
6. ^ "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06.
7. ^ Skorodumova, L. G. (2000). Vvedenie v staropismenny mongolskiy yazyk Введение в старописьменный монгольский язык (PDF) (in Russian). Muravey-Gayd. ISBN 5-8463-0015-4.
8. "PROPOSAL Encode Mongolian Suffix Connector (U+180F) To Replace Narrow Non-Breaking Space (U+202F)" (PDF). UTC Document Register for 2017. 2017-01-15.
9. "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
10. "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
11. Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Tsendina, Anna; Karlsson, Anastasia; Franzen, Vivan (2005-02-10). The Phonology of Mongolian. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-151461-6.
12. 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.
13. jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 2022-05-16.

• Mongolic letters
• Mongolic languages
• Tungusic languages