Qa is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.
Mongolian language
LetterTransliterationInitialMedial (syllable-initial)——Medial (syllable-final)——Final C-V syllables, , Transliteration— Alone —Initial—Medial —Final Separated suffixesTransliterationWhole
Transcribes Chakhar ; Khalkha . Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter . Produced with using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout. In the Mongolian Unicode block, comes after and before .
Distinction from other tooth-shaped letters by position in syllable sequence. A separated isolate-shaped appears in the Uyghur loan title 'worthy of respect; reverend'. Derived from Old Uyghur merged gimel and heth ().
Syllable-initially indistinguishable from . Derived from Old Uyghur kaph ().
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