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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 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 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.
The author is unknown and wrote in the Middle Mongol language using Mongolian script. The date of the text is uncertain, as the colophon to the text describes the book as having been finished in the Year of the Mouse, on the banks of the Kherlen River at Khodoe Aral, corresponding to an earliest possible figure of 1228. [1]
The Altan Tobchi, or Golden Summary (Mongolian script: ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨ ᠲᠣᠪᠴᠢ Altan Tobči; [1] Mongolian Cyrillic: Алтан товч, Altan tovch), is a 17th-century Mongolian chronicle written by Guush Luvsandanzan. Its full title is Herein is contained the Golden Summary of the Principles of Statecraft as established by the ...
A former branch of the National Library is the Children's Book Palace in Ulaanbaatar. It has an impressive collection of over 100,000 books in Mongolian, English, and Russian, in addition to three reading rooms. The reading rooms have titles like “Big Knowledge Man,” for younger children, “Dream,” for teenagers, and the “Education and ...
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.
From left to right: in Soyombo, Classical Mongolian and ʼPhags-pa. The Imperial Seal of the Mongols is a seal ( tamgha ) that was used by the Mongols . The imperial seals, bearing inscriptions in Mongolian script or other scripts, were used in the Mongol Empire , the Yuan dynasty , and the Northern Yuan dynasty , among others.