Ja (Mongolic)

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

Mongolian language

Main articles: Mongolian script, Mongolian writing systems, and Mongolian language

Ja
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 ɣ/g ᠮ m ᠯ l ᠰ s ᠱ š ᠲ t ᠳ d ᠴ č ᠵ ǰ ᠶ y ᠷ r ᠸ (w)
Mongolian script multigraphs
Galik alphabet
v t e

Letter[2]: 13, 17, 24 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214
ǰ (j)	Transliteration[note 1]
ᠵ‍	Initial
‍ᠵ‍	Medial (syllable-initial)
—	Medial (syllable-final)
(‍ᠵ)	Final[note 2]

C-V syllables[6]: 28
ǰ‑a, ǰ‑e	ǰa, ǰe	ǰi	ǰo	ǰu	ǰö, ǰü	Transliteration
ᠵ᠎ᠠ⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩ [note 3]	ᠵᠠ [note 4]	ᠵᠢ [note 5]	ᠵᠣ᠋		ᠵᠥ᠋	Alone
			ᠵᠣ [note 6]	—
—	ᠵᠠ‍	ᠵᠢ‍	ᠵᠣ‍		ᠵᠥ‍	Initial
	‍ᠵᠠ‍	‍ᠵᠢ‍	‍ᠵᠣ‍			Medial
	‍ᠵᠠ	‍ᠵᠢ	‍ᠵᠣ			Final

• Transcribes Chakhar /d͡ʒ/;^[12][13] Khalkha /d͡ʒ/, and d͡z (Mongolian Cyrillic ж, and з, respectively).^{[12]: § 1.2 [14]: 2} Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter ж.^[6][5]
• Derived from Old Uyghur yodh (𐽶; initial), and Old Uyghur (through early Mongolian) tsade (𐽽; medial).^{[8]: 59 [3]: 539–540, 545–546 [15]: 111, 113 [16]: 35}
• Produced with J using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.^[17]
• In the Mongolian Unicode block, ǰ comes after č and before y.

Clear Script

Main article: Clear Script

Xibe language

Main article: Xibe language § Alphabet

Manchu language

Main article: Manchu alphabet

Notes

1. Scholarly transliteration, with alternative in parentheses.^[5]
2. Not found in native Mongolian words.
3. ^[3]: 546 As in ǰ‑a (Khalkha: за(а) za(a)) 'well', 'allright';^{[2]: 24 [4]: 345 [7]} emphatic final;^{[8]: 46, 59} ǰ‑a particle expressing presumption, probability, or hope;^[10]: 1018 doubt-expressing ǰ‑a and corroborative ǰ‑e particle.^[11]: 104
4. As in the interjection ᠵᠠ ǰa (Khalkha: заа zaa) 'all right, yes, very good, well!, now then'.^[10]: 1018
5. See the separated  ᠶᠢ^⟨?⟩ ‑yi suffix.
6. As in ᠵᠣ ǰo (Khalkha: зоо zoo) 'vertebrae'.^[10]: 1065