Oe is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.: 549–551
Mongolian language
- Transcribes Chakhar /o/; Khalkha /o/[ɵ], /ə/, and /∅/.: 40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter ө.
- Indistinguishable from ü, except where ö can be inferred from its context:
- ö is found in medial or final syllables if it's also found syllable-initially.: 11, 20 : 9–10
- ᠥ᠋ = an alternative final form; also used in loanwords.: 39
- The syllable-initial medial form ᠥ᠋ is also used in non-initial syllables in proper name compounds,: 44 as well as in loanwords.
- ᠥ᠌ = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.: 44
- Derived from Old Uyghur waw (𐽳), followed by a yodh (𐽶) in word-initial syllables, and preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.: 539–540, 545–546 : 111, 113 : 35
- Produced with O using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.
- In the Mongolian Unicode block, ö comes after u and before ü.
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