I is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write
Mongolic and
Tungusic languages.
Mongolian language
* Transcribes
Chakhar or ;
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 .
* Today, often absorbed into a preceding syllable when at the end of a word.
* Written medially with the single ''
long tooth'' after a consonant, and with two after a vowel (with rare exceptions like ' 'eight' or ' 'eight'/tribal name).
* = a handwritten Inner Mongolian variant on the sequence ' (as in / ' 'good' being written ').
** Also the medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.
* 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 ...
''
yodh
Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ''yōd'' 𐤉, Hebrew ''yod'' , Aramaic ''yod'' 𐡉, Syriac ''yōḏ'' ܝ, and Arabic ''yāʾ'' . It is also related to the Ancient Nort ...
'' (), preceded by an ''
aleph
Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first Letter (alphabet), letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician ''ʾālep'' 𐤀, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew ''ʾālef'' , Aramaic alphabet, Aramaic ''ʾālap'' � ...
'' () for isolate and initial forms.
* 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