Mongolian

Script Details

Mongolian

Logo of a 1925 newspaper in Mongolian

By no - Buriad-Mongolun ynen newspaper, 1925, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21744248

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script

DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched

Data

Alternate Names Mongol, Uighur - Mongol, Old Script, Hudum
ISO 15924 Mong 145
Type Alphabet
Family Central Asian
Direction TTB, LTR
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms Yes
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 34
Earliest Location Dunhuang (Tunhuang (Wales-Giles romanization)), People's Republic of China
Earliest Date 1208 CE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 313-349 Blackwell Publishing
Kara, G. (ed. Bosworth, C.E. and Asimov, M.S.) 2000 Part Three: Pre-Mongol and Mongol Writing Systems, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, The age of achievement: A.D. 750 to the end of the fifteenth century UNESCO Publishing
Kara, Gyorgy 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Aramaic Scripts for Altaic Languages, 545-547 Oxford University Press
Sanders, Alan J. K. 2017 Historical Dictionary of Mongolia Rowman & Littlefield Unlimited Model