Galik alphabet
Galik Ali Gali | |
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Script type | |
Creator | |
Time period | 16th century |
Languages | Mongolian, Tibetan, Sanskrit |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Proto-Sinaitic alphabet |
Sister systems | Clear script Vagindra script |
The Galik script (Mongolian: Али-гали үсэг, Ali-Gali üseg) is an extension to the traditional Mongolian script. It was created in 1587 by the translator and scholar (Mongolian: Аюуш гүүш), inspired by the third Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso. He added extra characters for transcribing Tibetan and Sanskrit terms when translating religious texts, and later also from Chinese. Some of those characters are still in use today for writing foreign names.[1]
Some authors (particularly historic ones like Isaac Taylor in his The Alphabet: an account of the origin and development of letters, 1883) don't distinguish between the Galik and standard Mongolian alphabets.
To ensure that text in the script displays correctly in your browser, the appearance of the text samples in the table below should match.
Reference image | Browser-rendered text | Romanization |
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ᠾᠠ᠋ᠠ | hā |
Letters[]
Vowels[2][3]:26–28[4]:233[1]:37 | |||
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Mongolian | Romanization | Devanagari | Tibetan |
ᠠ᠋ | a | अ | ཨ |
ᠠ᠋ᠠ[a] | ā | आ / ा | ཨཱ |
ᠢ | i | इ / ि | ཨི |
ᠢᠢ | ī | ई / ी | ཨཱི |
ᠦ᠋ | u | उ / ु | ཨུ |
ᠤᠦ | ū | ऊ / ू | ཨཱུ |
ᠷᠢ | ṛ | ऋ / ृ | རྀ |
ᠷᠢᠢ | ṝ | ॠ / ॄ | རཱྀ |
ᠯᠢ | ḷ | ऌ / ॢ | ལྀ |
ᠯᠢᠢ | ḹ | ॡ / ॣ | ལཱྀ |
ᠧ | e | ए / े | ཨེ |
ᠧᠧ | ai | ऐ / ै | ཨཻ |
ᠣᠸᠠ | o | ओ / ो | ཨོ |
ᠣᠸᠸᠠ[b] | au | औ / ौ | ཨཽ |
ᢀ᠋ᠠ᠋ | am / aṃ | अं | ཨ / ཨཾ |
ᠠ᠋ᢁ | aẖ / aḥ | अः | ཨ / ཨཿ |
Consonants[2][3]:26–28[4]:234–239[1]:37 | |||
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Mongolian[c] | Romanization | Devanagari | Tibetan |
ᢉᠠ | ka | क | ཀ |
ᠻᠠ | kha | ख | ཁ |
ᠺᠠ | ga | ग | ག |
ᠺᠾᠠ᠋ | gha | घ | གྷ |
ᢊᢇ | ṅa | ङ | ང |
ᢋᠠ᠋ | ca | च | ཅ / ཙ |
ᠼᠠ᠋ | cha | छ | ཆ / ཚ |
ᢖᠠ᠋ / ᠽᠠ᠋ | ja | ज | ཇ / ཛ |
ᢖᠾᠠ᠋ / ᠽᠾᠠ᠋ | jha | झ | ཇྷ / ཛྷ |
ᡛᠠ᠋ | ña | ञ | ཉ |
ᢌᠠ᠋ | ṭa | ट | ཊ |
ᢍᠠ᠋ | ṭha | ठ | ཋ |
ᢎᠠ᠋ | ḍa | ड | ཌ |
ᢎᠾᠠ᠋ | ḍha | ढ | ཌྷ |
ᢏᠠ᠋ | ṇa | ण | ཎ |
ᢐᠠ᠋ | ta | त | ཏ |
ᠲᠠ᠋ / ᡐᠠ᠋ | tha | थ | ཐ |
ᢑᠠ᠋ / ᡑᠠ᠋ | da | द | ད |
ᢑᠾᠠ᠋ / ᡑᠾᠠ᠋ | dha | ध | དྷ |
ᠨᠠ᠋ | na | न | ན |
ᢒᠠ | pa | प | པ |
ᠹᠠ | pha | फ | ཕ |
ᠪᠠ | ba | ब | བ |
ᠪᠾᠠ᠋ | bha | भ | བྷ |
ᠮᠠ᠋ | ma | म | མ |
ᠶ᠋ᠠ᠋ | ya | य | ཡ |
ᠷᠠ᠋ | ra | र | ར |
ᠯᠠ᠋ | la | ल | ལ |
ᠸᠠ᠋ | va | व | ཝ |
ᢕᠠ᠋ | zha | [...] | ཞ |
ᠱᠠ᠋ | śa | श | ཤ |
ᢔᠠ᠋ | ṣa | ष | ཥ |
ᠰᠠ᠋ | sa | स | ས |
ᠾᠠ᠋ | ha | ह | ཧ |
ᢖᠠ᠋ | za | [...] | ཟ |
ᢗᠠ᠋ | 'a | [...] | འ |
ᢉᢔᠠ᠋ | kṣa | क्ष | ཀྵ |
Symbols & diacritics[]
Form(s) | Name | Examples | |
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Mongolian | Tibetan equivalent | ||
ᢀ | Anusvara One | ᢀᠠ᠋ | ཨྃ |
ᢀ᠋ | |||
ᢁ | Visarga One | ᠠ᠋ᢁ | ཨཿ |
ᢁ᠋ | |||
ᢂ | Damaru | ᢂᠻᠠ | ྈྑ |
ᢃ | Ubadama | ᢃᠹᠠ | ྌྥ |
ᢄ | ᢄᠹᠠ | ྉྥ | |
ᢅ | Baluda | ᢉᢅᠣᠸᠸᠠ
(right-side diacritic) |
ཀཽ྅ |
ᢆ | Three Baluda | ᢉᢆᠣᠸᠸᠠ
(right-side diacritic) |
ཀཽ྅྅྅ |
Notes[]
- ^ Second glyph should look like a left-pointing tail for correct appearance.
- ^ Should look like: ᠡ aleph + ᠤ waw + ᠧ bet + ᠧ bet + ᠡ right-tailed aleph for correct appearance. For relevant terminology, see Mongolian script § Vowels and § Native consonants.
- ^ All final letters a should look like left-pointing tails and be connected with the preceding letter for correct appearance. Those a's directly preceded by any of the bow-shaped letters k, kh, g, p, ph, and b should also include a tooth in between. For relevant terminology, see Mongolian script § Graphemes.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar (2008). Einführung in die Mongolischen Schriften (in German). Buske. ISBN 978-3-87548-500-4.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "BabelStone : Mongolian and Manchu Resources". babelstone.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 9783447006842.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Shagdarsürüng, Tseveliin (2001). "Study of Mongolian Scripts (Graphic Study or Grammatology). Enl". Bibliotheca Mongolica: Monograph 1.
- Mongolian writing systems