U 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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U
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]: 17, 19–20 [3]: 546 
u Transliteration[note 1]
ᠤ Alone
ᠤ‍ Initial
‍ᠤ‍ Medial
‍ᠤ Final
Ligatures[2]: 22–23 [3]: 546 
bu pu Transliteration
ᠪᠤ ᠫᠤ Alone
ᠪᠤ‍ ᠫᠤ‍ Initial
‍ᠪᠤ‍ ‍ᠫᠤ‍ Medial
‍ᠪᠤ ‍ᠫᠤ Final
Separated suffixes[note 2]
‑u(...) ‑u ‑un ‑ud ‑uruγu Transliteration
 ᠤ⟨?⟩ — — — Whole
—  ᠤᠨ⟨?⟩  ᠤᠳ⟨?⟩
— —  ᠤᠷᠤᠭᠤ⟨?⟩
  • Transcribes Chakhar /ʊ/;[6][7] Khalkha /ʊ/, /ə/, and /∅/.[8]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter у.[9][4]
  • Indistinguishable from o.[2]: 19 [10]: 9–10 
  • ‍ᠤ᠋‍ = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.[11]: 44 
  • Derived from Old Uyghur waw (𐽳), preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [12]: 111, 113 [11]: 35 
  • Produced with V using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[13]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, u comes after o and before ö.

Clear Script

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Xibe language

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Manchu language

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Notes

    1. ↑ Scholarly transliteration.[4]
    2. ↑ Separated suffixes starting with, or made up by the letter u include:  ᠤ⟨?⟩ ‑u or  ᠤᠨ⟨?⟩ ‑un (genitive),  ᠤᠳ⟨?⟩ ‑ud (plural), and  ᠤᠷᠤᠭᠤ⟨?⟩ ‑uruγu (directive).[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. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
    2. 1 2 3 Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-00684-2.
    3. 1 2 3 Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7.
    4. 1 2 "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06.
    5. ↑ "PROPOSAL Encode Mongolian Suffix Connector (U+180F) To Replace Narrow Non-Breaking Space (U+202F)" (PDF). UTC Document Register for 2017. 2017-01-15.
    6. ↑ "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
    7. ↑ "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
    8. ↑ Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Tsendina, Anna; Karlsson, Anastasia; Franzen, Vivan (2005-02-10). The Phonology of Mongolian. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-151461-6.
    9. ↑ Skorodumova, L. G. (2000). Vvedenie v staropismenny mongolskiy yazyk Введение в старописьменный монгольский язык (PDF) (in Russian). Muravey-Gayd. ISBN 5-8463-0015-4.
    10. ↑ 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.
    11. 1 2 Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
    12. ↑ Clauson, Gerard (2005-11-04). Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43012-3.
    13. ↑ jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
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