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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Mongolian language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. The dialect used in this chart is Khalkha Mongolian. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
The traditional Mongolian alphabet is not a perfect fit for the Mongolian language, and it would be impractical to extend it to a language with a very different phonology like Chinese. Therefore, during the Yuan dynasty (c. 1269), Kublai Khan asked a Tibetan monk, Drogön Chögyal Phagpa, to design a new script for use by the whole empire.
The Mongolian vertical script developed as an adaptation of the Old Uyghur alphabet for the Mongolian language. [2]: 545 Tata-tonga, a 13th-century Uyghur scribe captured by Genghis Khan, was responsible for bringing the Old Uyghur alphabet to the Mongolian Plateau and adapting it to the form of the Mongolian script. [3]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... 6 [10] Final dotted n is also found in modern Mongolian words. [14]: ...
Transcribes Chakhar /ɑ/; [8] [9] Khalkha /a/, /ə/, and /∅/. [10]: 40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter а.[11] [4]Medial and final forms may be distinguished from those of other tooth-shaped letters through: vowel harmony (), the shape of adjacent consonants (q/k and ɣ/g), and position in syllable sequence (n, ng, q, ɣ, d).
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In the Mongolian Unicode block, ɣ/g comes after q/k and before m. May turn silent between vowels, and merge these into a long vowel or diphthong. [ 2 ] : 36–37 For more details on this, see Mongolian script multigraphs .
Only at the beginning of Mongolian words (although words with an initial p tend to be foreign). [10]: 5 [11]: 27 [7] Galik letter, derived from Mongolian b. [12]: 35 Produced with P using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout. [13] In the Mongolian Unicode block, p comes after b and before q/k.