Sa_(Mongolic)

Sa (Mongolic)

Sa (Mongolic)

Letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages


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

Mongolian language

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  • Transcribes Chakhar /s/, or /ʃ/ before i;[10]:58[11] Khalkha /s/, or /ʃ/ before i. Before a morpheme boundary, however, there is no change of s to /ʃ/ before an i.[10]:84 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter с.[6][5]
  • Derived from Old Uyghur merged samekh and shin (𐽻 and 𐽿).[3]:539–540,545–546[12]:111,113[13]:35
  • Produced with S using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[14]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, s comes after l and before š.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

  1. As in ᠰᠠ sa (саа saa) 'paralysis, palsy'.[9]:653
  1. Scholarly transliteration.[5]

References

  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. Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-00684-2.
  3. 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. "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
  6. "UNU/IIST Report No. 170 Traditional Mongolian Script in the ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode Standards" (PDF). BabelStone. Aug 1999. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-02-24. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
  7. "Mongolian Transliteration & Transcription". collab.its.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  8. 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.[8]
  9. 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.
  10. "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Archived from the original on 2022-01-18. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  11. Clauson, Gerard (2005-11-04). Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43012-3.
  12. Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
  13. jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26. Retrieved 2022-05-16.

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