Ra (Mongolic)

Ra 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

Ra
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]: 13–14, 17 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214
r	Transliteration[note 1]
(ᠷ‍)	Initial[note 2]
‍ᠷ‍	Medial (syllable-initial)
	Medial (syllable-final)
‍ᠷ	Final

C-V syllables[6]: 14
r‑a, r‑e	ra, re	ri	ro, ru	rö, rü	Transliteration
—	ᠷᠠ	ᠷᠢ	ᠷᠣ᠋	ᠷᠥ᠋	Alone
	ᠷᠠ‍	ᠷᠢ‍	ᠷᠣ‍	ᠷᠥ‍	Initial
	‍ᠷᠠ‍	‍ᠷᠢ‍	‍ᠷᠣ‍		Medial
‍ᠷ᠎ᠠ⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩	‍ᠷᠠ	‍ᠷᠢ	‍ᠷᠣ		Final

• Transcribes Chakhar /r/;^[7][8] Khalkha /r/.^{[9]: 40–42} Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter р.^[6][5]
• Not occurring word-initially except in loanwords.^[2]: 14
• Derived from Old Uyghur resh (𐽾).^{[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [10]: 111, 113 [11]: 35}
• Produced with R using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.^[12]
• In the Mongolian Unicode block, r comes after y and before w.

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. Not found in native Mongolian words.