Ba is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write
Mongolic and
Tungusic languages.
Mongolian language
* Transcribes
Chakhar ;
Khalkha
The Khalkha (; ) have been the largest subgroup of the Mongols in modern Mongolia since the 15th century. The Khalkha, together with Chahars, Ordos Mongols, Ordos and Tumed, were directly ruled by Borjigin khans until the 20th century. In cont ...
, , and .
Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter .
* For
Classical Mongolian
Classical Mongolian was the literary language of Mongolian that was first introduced shortly after 1600, when Ligdan Khan set his clergy the task of translating the whole of the Tibetan Buddhist canon, consisting of the Kangyur and Tengyur, into ...
, Latin ' is used only for transcribing foreign words, so most (') in Mongolian Cyrillic correspond to (''b'') in Classical Mongolian.
* Derived from
Old Uyghur
Old Uyghur () was a Turkic language spoken in Qocho from the 9th–14th centuries as well as in Gansu.
History
Old Uyghur evolved from Old Turkic, a Siberian Turkic language, after the Uyghur Khaganate broke up and remnants of it migrated ...
''
pe'' ().
* Produced with using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.
* In the
Mongolian Unicode block, ' comes after ' and before '.
Clear Script
Xibe language
Manchu language
Notes
References
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Articles containing Mongolian script text
Mongolic letters
Mongolic languages
Tungusic languages