Letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages
O is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.[ 1] : 549–551
Mongolian language O
Ligatures [ 2] : 22–23 [ 3] : 546
bo
po
Transliteration
ᠪᠣ
ᠫᠣ
Alone
ᠪᠣ
ᠫᠣ
Initial
ᠪᠣ
ᠫᠣ
Medial
ᠪᠣ
ᠫᠣ
Final
Transcribes Chakhar /ɔ / ;[ 7] [ 8] Khalkha /ɔ / , /ə / , and /∅ / .[ 9] : 40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter о .[ 10] [ 4]
Indistinguishable from u , except where o can be inferred from its context:
o is found in medial or final syllables if it's also found syllable-initially (and occasionally after a syllable-initial i ).[ 2] : 11, 19 [ 11] : 9–10
ᠣ᠋ = the final form used in loanwords, as in ᠷᠠᠳᠢᠣ᠋ radio (радио radio ).[ 10] : 48 [ 12] : 36 [ 13]
ᠣ᠋ = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.[ 12] : 44
Derived from Old Uyghur waw (𐽳 ), preceded by an aleph (𐽰 ) for isolate and initial forms.[ 3] : 539–540, 545–546 [ 14] : 111, 113 [ 12] : 35
Produced with W using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[ 15]
In the Mongolian Unicode block , o comes after i and before u .
Clear Script
Xibe language
Manchu language
Notes
^ Scholarly transliteration.[ 4]
^ As in ᠣ o (Khalkha: оо oo ) 'powder' in general; 'face powder'.[ 6] : 598, 625
References
^ "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 .
^ a b c Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-00684-2 .
^ a b c Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (1996). The World's Writing Systems . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7 .
^ a b "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF) . Institute of the Estonian Language . 2006-05-06.
^ "Mongolian Transliteration & Transcription" . collab.its.virginia.edu . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
^ 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 ;: xii as well as problematically and incorrectly treats all rounded vowels (o/u/ö/ü ) after the initial syllable as u or ü .[ 5]
^ "Mongolian Traditional Script" . Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site . Retrieved 2022-05-16 .
^ "Writing – Study Mongolian" . Study Mongolian . August 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-16 .
^ Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Tsendina, Anna; Karlsson, Anastasia; Franzen, Vivan (2005-02-10). The Phonology of Mongolian . OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-151461-6 .
^ a b Skorodumova, L. G. (2000). Vvedenie v staropismenny mongolskiy yazyk Введение в старописьменный монгольский язык (PDF) (in Russian). Muravey-Gayd. ISBN 5-8463-0015-4 .
^ 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 .
^ a b c Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages . Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7 .
^ "Mongolian State Dictionary" . Mongol toli (in Mongolian). Retrieved 2022-05-16 .
^ Clauson, Gerard (2005-11-04). Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics . Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43012-3 .
^ jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization" . Microsoft Docs . Retrieved 2022-05-16 .