Yaña imlâ was a modified variant of Arabic script that was in use for the Tatar language

Tatar language

The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria...

 in 1920–1927. The orthographical reform modified İske imlâ

Iske imlâ

İske imlâ is a variant of the Arabic script, used for the Tatar language before 1920 and the Old Tatar language. This alphabet can be referred to as old only to contrast it with Yaña imlâ....

, abolishing excess Arabic letters, adding letters for short vowels e, ı, ö, o. Some diacritic, that looked like comma

Comma

A comma is a type of punctuation mark . The word comes from the Greek komma , which means something cut off or a short clause.Comma may also refer to:* Comma , a type of interval in music theory...

 was used to designate the vowel harmony

Vowel harmony

Vowel harmony is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels that occurs in some languages. In languages with vowel harmony, there are constraints on which vowels may be found near each other....

. 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 (so as to use typewriters). 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 Jaꞑalif alphabet.

	Zamanälif	Initial	Medial	Final	Stand-alone	Jaꞑalif	modern Cyrillic Tatar alphabet	Notes
1	a		ﺎ	ﺎ		a	а
2	ä	ﻪﺋ	ﻪ	ﻪ	ﻪﺋ	ə	ә
3	b	ﺑ	ﺒ	ﺐ	ﺏ		б
4	t	ﺗ	ﺘ	ﺖ	ﺕ	t	т
5	p	ﭘ	ﭙ	ﭗ	ﭖ	p	п
6	c	ﺟ	ﺠ	ﺞ	ﺝ	ç	җ
7	ç	ﭼ	ﭽ	ﭻ	ﭺ	c	ч
8	x	ﺣ	ﺤ	ﺢ	ﺡ	x	х
9	d	ﺩ	ﺪ	ﺪ	ﺩ	d	д
10	r	ﺭ	ﺮ	ﺮ	ﺭ	r	р
11	z	ﺯ	ﺰ	ﺰ	ﺯ	z	з
12	j	ﮊ	ﮋ	ﮋ	ﮊ		ж
13	s	ﺳ	ﺴ	ﺲ	ﺱ	s	с
14	ş	ﺷ	ﺸ	ﺶ	ﺵ	ş	ш
15	ğ	ﻋ	ﻌ	ﻊ	ﻉ		г(ъ)	alternative Cyrillic transcription: ғ
16	f	ﻓ	ﻔ	ﻒ	ﻑ	f	ф
17	q	ﻗ	ﻘ	ﻖ	ﻕ	q	к(ъ)	alternative Cyrillic transcription: қ
18	k	ﻛ	ﻜ	ﻚ	ﮎ	k	к
19	g	ﮔ	ﮕ	ﮓ	ﮒ	g	г
20	ñ	–	ﯖ	ﯔ	ﯓ		ң	Initial form was never used due phonetic reasons
21	l	ﻟ	ﻠ	ﻞ	ﻝ	l	л
22	m	ﻣ	ﻤ	ﻢ	ﻡ	m	м
23	n	ﻧ	ﻨ	ﻦ	ﻥ	n	н
24	w	ﻭ	ﻮ	ﻮ	ﻭ	v	в	alternative Cyrillic transcription: ў
25	i, í, y	ﻴﺋ	ﻴ	ﻯ	ﻴﺋ	i, ьj, j	и, ый, й	ﻴﺋ, – for í, ﻴﺋ – for i,
26	u, ü		ﻮ	ﻮ		u, y	у, ү	, – for u, – for ü
27	o, ö		ﯘ	ﯘ		o,	о, ө	, – for o, – for ö
28	ı, e	ﺋ	ﺌ	ئ	ﺋ	ь, e	ы, е	ﺋ, – for ı, ﺋ – for e
29	h	ﻫ	ﻬ	ﻪ	ﻩ	h	һ