Da is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write
Mongolic and
Tungusic languages.
Mongolian language
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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 ...
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Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter .
* Syllable-initially indistinguishable from '.
When it must be distinguished from ' medially, it can be written twice, and with both medial forms (as in ' 'well', compared with ' 'holy').
Alternatively, a dot is sometimes used to the right of the letter in 19th and 20th century manuscripts.
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belly-tooth''-shaped form is used before consonants (syllable-final), the other before vowels.
* 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 ...
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taw'' (; initial, ''belly-tooth''-shaped medial, and final) and ''
lamedh
Lamedh or lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew ''lāmeḏ'' , Aramaic ''lāmaḏ'' 𐡋, Syriac ''lāmaḏ'' ܠ, Arabic ''lām'' , and Phoenician ''lāmd'' 𐤋. Its sound value is . It is also related to the A ...
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* Positional variants of ''lamedh'' can be used to clarify the spelling of ' in words of foreign origin, as in ' 'doctor' ( '), ' 'the following, the succeeding' ( '), and ' 'goods, property' (distinguishing it from ' 'year', and retained in derivatives such as ' 'possession' ( '); ').
* 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