Wa (Mongolic) Explained

Wa is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.^[1]

Mongolian language

See main article: Mongolian script, Mongolian writing systems and Mongolian language.

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• Transcribes Chakhar pronounced as /link/;^[4] Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter .
• Used to transcribe foreign words (originally for v in Sanskrit /va/). Transcribes /w/ in Tibetan ཝ /wa/;^{[5] [6]} Old Uyghur and Chinese loanwords.
• Indistinguishable from , except when inferred by its placement: typically between vowels, but also when it follows a consonant and precedes a vowel.
• Derived from Old Uyghur bet,^[7] and waw (before a separated vowel).
• Produced with using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.^[8]
• In the Mongolian Unicode block, comes after .

Clear Script

See main article: Clear Script.

Manchu language

See main article: Manchu alphabet.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Unicode Standard, Version 14.0 – Core Specification Chapter 13: South and Central Asia-II, Other Modern Scripts . 2022-05-16 . www.unicode.org.
2. Book: Janhunen, Juha . The Mongolic Languages . 2006-01-27 . Routledge . 978-1-135-79690-7 . en.
3. Book: Skorodumova, L. G. . Vvedenie v staropismenny mongolskiy yazyk . 2000 . Muravey-Gayd . 5-8463-0015-4 . ru . ru:Введение в старописьменный монгольский язык.
4. Web site: Writing – Study Mongolian . 2022-05-16 . Study Mongolian . August 2013 . en-US.
5. Web site: BabelStone : Mongolian and Manchu Resources . 2022-05-16 . BabelStone . zh.
6. Book: Clauson, Gerard . Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics . 2005-11-04 . Routledge . 978-1-134-43012-3 . en.
7. Book: Daniels . Peter T. . The World's Writing Systems . Bright . William . 1996 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-507993-7 . en.
8. Web site: jowilco . Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization . 2022-05-16 . Microsoft Docs . en-us.