Yaña imlâ alphabet
Yaña imlâ was a modified variant of Arabic script that was in use for the Tatar language between 1920–1927. The orthographical reform modified İske imlâ, abolishing excess Arabic letters, adding letters for short vowels e, ı, ö, o. Yaña imlâ made use of "Arabic Letter Low Alef" to indicate vowel harmony. Arguably, Yaña imlâ had as its goal the accommodation of the alphabet to the actual Tatar pronunciation.
There were some projects that were to simplify Yaña imlâ too. The unique separated Arabic was invented. Separated Arabic was even incorporated in the early flag of Tatar ASSR, though it was not in real use.
As early as in 1924 the first projects of Latin script were introduced and in 1928 alphabet was switched to the Latin Yañalif alphabet.
Zamanälif | Isolated | Final | Medial | Initial | Jaꞑalif | Modern Cyrillic Tatar alphabet | Notes |
a | a | а | |||||
ä | ə | ә | |||||
p | p | п | |||||
b | ʙ | б | |||||
t | t | т | |||||
c | ç | җ | |||||
ç | c | ч | |||||
x | x | х | |||||
d | d | д | |||||
r | r | р | |||||
z | z | з | |||||
j | ƶ | ж | |||||
s | s | с | |||||
ş | ş | ш | |||||
ğ | ƣ | г | Alternative Cyrillic transcription: ғ | ||||
f | f | ф | |||||
q | q | к | Alternative Cyrillic transcription: қ | ||||
k | k | к | |||||
g | g | г | |||||
ñ | – | ꞑ | ң | Initial form not used due to the absence of as an initial consonant | |||
l | l | л | |||||
m | m | м | |||||
n | n | н | |||||
w | v | в | Alternative Cyrillic transcription: ў | ||||
y | j | й | |||||
i, í | i, ьj | и, ый | for í for i | ||||
u, ü | u, y | у, ү | for u for ü | ||||
o, ö | o, ɵ | о, ө | for o for ö | ||||
ı, e | ь, e | ы, е | for ı for e | ||||
h | h | һ |