Ma (Mongolic)

Ma 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

Ma
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
m	Transliteration[note 1]
ᠮ‍	Initial
‍ᠮ‍	Medial (syllable-initial)
	Medial (syllable-final)
‍ᠮ	Final

C-V syllables[6]: 8
m‑a, m‑e	ma, me	mi	mo, mu	mö, mü	Transliteration
—	ᠮᠠ [note 2]	ᠮᠢ	ᠮᠣ᠋	ᠮᠥ᠋	Alone
	ᠮᠠ‍	ᠮᠢ‍	ᠮᠣ‍	ᠮᠥ‍	Initial
	‍ᠮᠠ‍	‍ᠮᠢ‍	‍ᠮᠣ‍		Medial
‍ᠮ᠎ᠠ⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩	‍ᠮᠠ	‍ᠮᠢ	‍ᠮᠣ		Final

• Transcribes Chakhar /m/;^[9][10] Khalkha /m/.^{[11]: 40–42} Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter м.^[6][5]
• Derived from Old Uyghur mem (𐽹).^{[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [12]: 111, 113 [13]: 35}
• Produced with M using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.^[14]
• In the Mongolian Unicode block, m comes after ɣ/g and before l.

Clear Script

Main article: Clear Script

Xibe language

Main article: Xibe language § Alphabet

Manchu language

Main article: Manchu alphabet

Notes

1. Scholarly transliteration.^[5]
2. As in the exclamation ᠮᠠ/ᠮᠠᠢ ma/mai (Khalkha: ма(й) ma(i)) 'here, take it'.^{[8]: 519, 522}