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The traditional Mongolian script, [note 1] also known as the Hudum Mongol bichig, [note 2] was the first writing system created specifically for the Mongolian language, and was the most widespread until the introduction of Cyrillic in 1946. It is traditionally written in vertical lines Top-Down, right across the page.
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.
The Soyombo script is an abugida created by the Mongolian monk and scholar Bogdo Zanabazar in the late 17th century, that can also be used to write Tibetan and Sanskrit. A special glyph in the script, the Soyombo symbol , became a national symbol of Mongolia , and has appeared on the national flag since 1921, and on the national coat of arms ...
The Phagspa, ʼPhags-pa or ḥPʻags-pa script[1] is an alphabet designed by the Tibetan monk and State Preceptor (later Imperial Preceptor) Drogön Chögyal Phagpa (1235–1280) for Kublai Khan (r. 1264–1294), the founder of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) in China, as a unified script for the written languages within the Yuan.
Mongolian script and Mongolian Cyrillic on Sukhbaatar's statue in Ulaanbaatar. Mongolian has been written in a variety of alphabets, making it a language with one of the largest number of scripts used historically. The earliest stages of Mongolian (Xianbei, Wuhuan languages) may have used an indigenous runic script as indicated by Chinese sources.
Distinction from other tooth -shaped letters by position in syllable sequence. [citation needed] Dotted before a vowel (attached or separated); undotted before a consonant (syllable-final) or a whitespace. [2]: 20 [3]: 546 [13]: 6 [10] Final dotted n is also found in modern Mongolian words. [14]: 37 A dotted pre-consonantal variant can be used ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The Mongolian script; ... Produced with ⇧ Shift+W using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.
Zanabazar's square script is a horizontal Mongolian square script (Mongolian: Хэвтээ Дөрвөлжин бичиг, romanized: Hevtee Dörvöljin bichig or Хэвтээ Дөрвөлжин Үсэг, Hevtee Dörvöljin Üseg), [1] an abugida developed by the monk and scholar Zanabazar based on the Tibetan alphabet to write Mongolian. It can ...