Wa (Mongolic)

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

Mongolian language

• Transcribes Chakhar ; Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter .
• Used to transcribe foreign words (originally for v in Sanskrit /va/). Transcribes /w/ in Tibetan ཝ /wa/; 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. In many xylographs also indistinguishable from the straight form of ' .

• Derived from Old Uyghur bet (), and waw (, before a separated vowel).
• Produced with using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.
• In the Mongolian Unicode block, ' comes after '.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

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