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. 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.
- Produced with using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.
- In the Mongolian Unicode block, ' comes after '.