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The Clear Script [note 1] is an alphabet created in 1648 by the Oirat Buddhist monk Zaya Pandita for the Oirat language. [1] [2] [3] It was developed on the basis of the Mongolian script with the goal of distinguishing all sounds in the spoken language, and to make it easier to transcribe Sanskrit and the Tibetic languages.
The Old Uyghur script and its descendants, of which traditional Mongolian is one among Oirat Clear, Manchu, and Buryat are the only known vertical scripts written from left to right. This developed because the Uyghurs rotated their Sogdian -derived script, originally written right to left, 90 degrees counterclockwise to emulate Chinese writing ...
The literary tradition of Oirat reaches back to 11th century when the Old Uyghur script was used. The official Kalmyk alphabet, named Clear Script or Todo bichig in Oirat, was created in the 17th century by a Kalmyk Buddhist monk called Zaya Pandita. Like the Old Mongolian script, Todo bichig was written from top to bottom.
Oirat (Clear script: ᡆᡕᡅᠷᠠᡑ ᡍᡄᠯᡄᠨ, Oirad kelen; Kalmyk: Өөрд, Öörd; Khalkha Mongolian: Ойрад, Oirad [ˈœe̯rət]) is a Mongolic language spoken by the descendants of Oirat Mongols, now forming parts of Mongols in China, Kalmyks in Russia and Mongolians.
Phagpa extended his native Tibetan script to encompass Mongolian and Chinese; the result was known by several descriptive names, such as the Mongolian new script, but today is known as the 'Phags-pa script. The script did not receive wide acceptance and fell into disuse with the collapse of the Yuan dynasty in 1368.
2 Clear Script. 3 Xibe language. 4 Manchu language. 5 Notes. 6 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... [13]: 39 Additionally used in native and modern Mongolian ...
2 Clear Script. 3 Notes. ... Produced with H using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout. [13] In the Mongolian Unicode block, q/k comes after p and before ɣ/g. q.
2 Clear Script. 3 Xibe language. 4 Manchu language. 5 Notes. 6 References. Toggle the table of contents. Ja (Mongolic) ... Khalkha /d͡ʒ/, and d͡z (Mongolian ...