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

Mongolian language

Pa
The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
ᠠ​
a
ᠡ​
e
ᠢ​
i
ᠣ​
o
ᠤ​
u
ᠥ​
ö
ᠦ​
ü
ᠧ​
(ē)
Mongolian consonants
ᠨ​
n
ᠩ​
ng
ᠪ​
b
ᠫ​
(p)
ᠬ​
q/k
ᠭ​
γ/g
ᠮ​
m
ᠯ​
l
ᠰ​
s
ᠱ​
š
ᠲ​
t
ᠳ​
d
ᠴ​
č
ᠵ​
ǰ
ᠶ​
y
ᠷ​
r
ᠸ​
(w)
Foreign consonants
Letter[2]: 12, 15, 17, 23 [3]: 546 [4]: 212–213 
p Transliteration[note 1]
ᠫ‍ Initial
‍ᠫ‍ Medial (syllable-initial)
— Medial (syllable-final)
(‍ᠫ) Final[note 2]
C-V syllables[6]: 46 
pa, pe pi po, pu pö, pü Transliteration
ᠫᠠ ᠫᠢ ᠫᠣ ᠫᠥ᠋ Alone
ᠫᠠ‍ ᠫᠢ‍ ᠫᠣ‍ ᠫᠥ‍ Initial
‍ᠫᠠ‍ ‍ᠫᠢ‍ ‍ᠫᠣ‍ Medial
‍ᠫᠠ ‍ᠫᠢ ‍ᠫᠣ Final
  • Transcribes Chakhar /p/;[7][8] Khalkha /pʰ/.[9]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter п.[6][5]
  • Only at the beginning of Mongolian words (although words with an initial p tend to be foreign).[10]: 5 [11]: 27 [7]
  • Galik letter, derived from Mongolian b.[12]: 35 
  • Produced with P using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[13]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, p comes after b and before q/k.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

    1. ↑ Scholarly transliteration.[5]
    2. ↑ Not found in native Mongolian words.

    References

    1. ↑ "The Unicode Standard, Version 14.0 – Core Specification Chapter 13: South and Central Asia-II, Other Modern Scripts" (PDF). www.unicode.org. 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. 1 2 "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06.
    6. 1 2 Skorodumova, L. G. (2000). Vvedenie v staropismenny mongolskiy yazyk Введение в старописьменный монгольский язык (PDF) (in Russian). Muravey-Gayd. ISBN 5-8463-0015-4.
    7. 1 2 "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
    8. ↑ "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
    9. ↑ Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Tsendina, Anna; Karlsson, Anastasia; Franzen, Vivan (2005-02-10). The Phonology of Mongolian. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-151461-6.
    10. ↑ "Mongolian / ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ Moŋġol" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2015-12-27.
    11. ↑ Janhunen, Juha A. (2012). Mongolian. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 978-90-272-3820-7.
    12. ↑ Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
    13. ↑ jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
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