This article describes two- and three-letter combinations (so-called digraphs and trigraphs) used for the Mongolian language when written in the Mongolian script.
Vowel and consonant combinations The intervocalic letters /, and has in some combinations come to help form long vowels, namely: Long with: , , . Long with: , , . Long with: . Long with: , , . Long with: , , . Long with: , . Long with: , , .
Sometimes intervocalic and is silent: as in (Khalkha: ) 'robe, garment' or (Khalkha: ) 'human, person; man'.
Vowel combinations Doubled vowelsTransliterationPronunciation—— Alone—InitialMedial——Final The doubled vowels , , and mark these out as long. Doubled is instead both used in a few words to mark the vowel as short, and to distinguish it from .
Diphthongs, Transliteration, —PronunciationAlone—Initial—Medial—Final Most of the '''s of these diphthongs derive from an earlier , but is no longer recognized as such. The origin can for instance be seen in the two long teeth of 'good'. These has become a pair of short and long teeth in recent manuscripts. The diphthongs only appears with the single form of , as in '' 'sea', at the end of words. Diphthongs, continuedTransliteration?Pronunciation———InitialMedial— Final
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