Ya (Mongolic)

Ya 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.
 * Derived from Old Uyghur yodh (𐽶) originally, and also later in the 19th century from Manchu yodh with an upturn $⟨?⟩$ as an initial form.
 * Produced with Y using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.
 * In the Mongolian Unicode block, ' comes after ' and before .