Ta (Mongolic)

Summary

Ta is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.[1]: 549–551 

Mongolian language edit

Ta
 
The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
a
e
i
o
u
ö
ü
(ē)
Mongolian consonants
n
ng
b
(p)
q/k
γ/g
m
l
s
š
t
d
č
ǰ
y
r
(w)
Foreign consonants
Letter[2]: 13, 17, 23 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214 
t Transliteration[note 1]
ᠲ‍ Initial
‍ᠲ‍ Medial (syllable-initial)
Medial (syllable-final)
Final
C-V syllables[6]: 31 
ta, te ti to, tu , Transliteration
ᠲᠠ[a] ᠲᠢ ᠲᠣ᠋ ᠲᠥ᠋ Alone
ᠲᠠ‍ ᠲᠢ‍ ᠲᠣ‍ ᠲᠥ‍ Initial
‍ᠲᠠ‍ ‍ᠲᠢ‍ ‍ᠲᠣ‍ Medial
‍ᠲᠠ ‍ᠲᠢ ‍ᠲᠣ Final
Separated suffixes[note 2]
‑ta, ‑te ‑tu, ‑tü Transliteration
 ᠲᠤ Whole
 ᠲᠠ‍  ᠲᠤ‍ Initial
  • Transcribes Chakhar /t/;[10][11] Khalkha /t/.[12]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter т.[6][5]
  • Syllable-initially indistinguishable from d.[2]: 23 [13]: 9 [10]
  • Derived from Old Uyghur taw (𐾀; initial) and lamedh (𐽸; medial).[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [14]: 111, 113 [15]: 35 
  • Positional variants of initial taw ᠲ‍/‍ᠲ᠋‍/‍ᠲ can be used to clarify the spelling of t in words of foreign origin, as in ᠹᠣᠲ᠋ᠣ᠋ foto 'photograph' (фото foto), ᠲᠢᠶᠠᠲ᠋ᠷ tiyatr 'theatre' (театр teatr), and ᠻᠠᠷᠲ khart 'card' (карт kart).[2]: 23 [6]: 48–49 [15]: 37 [16]
  • Produced with T using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[17]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, t comes after š and before d.

Clear Script edit

Xibe language edit

Manchu language edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ As in the second person singular/plural pronoun ᠲᠠ ta 'you',[8]: 760 [2]: 85–86  or the intensifying ᠳᠠ da/de (даа/дээ daa/dee) particle used after the predicate.[8]: 211 
  1. ^ Scholarly transliteration.[5]
  2. ^ Separated suffixes starting with the letter t include:  ᠲᠠᠢ ‑tai/‑tei (comitative),  ᠲᠠᠭᠠᠨ/ ᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ‑taγan/‑tegen (reflexive+dative-locative),  ᠲᠠᠶᠢᠭᠠᠨ⟨?⟩/ ᠲᠡᠶᠢᠭᠡᠨ⟨?⟩ ‑tayiγan/‑teyigen (reflexive+comitative), and  ᠲᠤ ‑tu/‑tü or  ᠲᠤᠷ ‑tur/‑tür (dative-locative).[9]

References edit

  1. ^ "The Unicode Standard, Version 14.0 – Core Specification Chapter 13: South and Central Asia-II, Other Modern Scripts" (PDF). www.unicode.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-10-31. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  2. ^ a b c d Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-00684-2.
  3. ^ a b 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. ^ a b "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
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  8. ^ a b 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.[7]
  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.
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  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.
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  16. ^ Bawden, Charles (2013-10-28). Mongolian English Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-15595-6.
  17. ^ jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26. Retrieved 2022-05-16.