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The so-called Stone of Genghis Khan or Stele of Yisüngge, with the earliest known inscription in the Mongolian script. [1]: 33 The Mongolian vertical script developed as an adaptation of the Old Uyghur alphabet for the Mongolian language. [2]: 545 Tata-tonga, a 13th-century Uyghur scribe captured by Genghis Khan, was responsible for bringing ...
The word Mongol in various contemporary and historical scripts: 1. traditional, 2. folded, 3. 'Phags-pa, 4. Todo, 5. Manchu, 6. Soyombo, 7. horizontal square, 8. Cyrillic. Various Mongolian writing systems have been devised for the Mongolian language over the centuries, and from a variety of scripts.
ʼPhags-pa script: ꡏꡡꡃ ꡣꡡꡙ ꡐꡜꡞ mongxol tshi, "Mongolian script"; Mongolian: дөрвөлжин үсэг dörvöljin üseg, "square script"; дөрвөлжин бичиг dörvöljin bichig, "square writing" Tibetan: ཧོར་ཡིག་གསར་པ་, Wylie: hor yig gsar pa "new Mongolian script";
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The Mongolian script; ... [13]: 39 Additionally used in native and modern Mongolian ...
The script was designed in 1686 by Zanabazar, the first spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia, who also designed the Horizontal square script. [2] The Soyombo script was created as the fourth Mongolian script, only 38 years after the invention of the Clear script. The name of the script alludes to this story.
[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 most text in the script displays correctly in your browser, the text sample below should resemble its image counterpart.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Mongolian script multigraphs; ... 6 [10] Final dotted n is also found in modern Mongolian words.
The Uyghur script was used until 1946, when Cyrillic script was introduced to replace it. It is still used mainly in Inner Mongolia , China . In present-day Mongolia , Cyrillic is the official script for the Mongolian language and the traditional script is referred to as the old Mongol script ( Mongolian : Хуучин монгол бичиг ).