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
Unicode Chart
Maps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script
DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched
Data
Alternate Names | Mongol, Uighur - Mongol, Old Script, Hudum |
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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 |
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Bibliography
Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
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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 |