Ta 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, , , TransliterationAloneInitialMedialFinal Separated suffixes, , Transliteration—WholeInitial Transcribes Chakhar ; Khalkha . Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter . Syllable-initially indistinguishable from . Derived from Old Uyghur taw (; initial) and lamedh (; medial). Positional variants of initial taw can be used to clarify the spelling of in words of foreign origin, as in 'photograph' ( ), 'theatre' ( ), and 'card' ( ). Produced with using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout. In the Mongolian Unicode block, comes after and before .
Clear Script
Xibe language
Manchu language
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