La (Mongolic)

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

Mongolian language

 * Transcribes Chakhar ; Khalkha .  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter.
 * Not occurring word-initially in native words.
 * Forms a ligature with a preceding bow-shaped consonant in loanwords such as $⟨⟩$  'lama' from Tibetan Wylie: bla-ma.
 * Derived from Old Uyghur hooked resh (𐾁).
 * Produced with L using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.
 * In the Mongolian Unicode block, ' comes after ' and before .