| Description | Latin alphabet was using "y" as feminine "u", with additional
feminine "o" ("ө") and with additional consonants "ç" for "ch", "ş"
for "sh" and "ƶ" for "j", it successfully served in printing books
and newspapers. A few of the letters (f, k, p, v) were rarely used,
being found only in borrowings, while q, w and x were excluded
altogether. Since k transcribed [h] in loans, it is unclear how loans
in [kʰ] were written. "j" is used for vowel combinations of the [ja]
type. Letter "c" is used for the sound [ts] and "k" is used for the
ound [h]. The first version was inspired by the Yanalif script used
for the Soviet Union's Turkic languages.
The orthography of the Mongolian Latin is based on the orthography of
the Classical Mongolian script. It preserves short final vowels. It
does not drop unstressed vowels in the closing syllables when the word
is conjugated. The suffixes and inflections without long or i-coupled
vowels are made open syllables ending with a vowel, which is harmonized
with the stressed vowel. The rule for the vowel harmony for unstressed
vowels is similar to that of the Mongolian Cyrillic. It does not use
consonant combinations to denote new consonant sounds. For both of the
version, letter "b" is used both in the beginning and in the middle of
the word. Because it phonetically assimilates into sound [w], no
ambiguity is caused.
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