Starting in the 1940s, however, Mongolia adopted a new script, based on the Cyrillic alphabet, which replaced bichig. Apart from the tradition of using both the Cyrillic and bichig alphabets in ...

ON THE FIRST day of the school year in Inner Mongolia, a northern province of China, some teachers in schools using the Mongolian language found their classrooms empty. To show their anger at an ...

2 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia has officially begun using both the Cyrillic and traditional Mongolian scripts for legal papers and official documents, starting this year, local media reported on Thursday ...

Providing evidence of this, the Stele of Genghis Khan – a stone dating back to the 1200s bearing the first known Mongolian script – depicted a nobleman named Yesunge who managed to shoot a ...

A common language also unites Mongols. All speak Mongolian, with minor linguistic differences, and use the same unique script. Written from top to bottom, left to right, the script was adapted in the ...

The traditional Mongolian script abandoned in the Soviet era will be reinstated as an official language in 2025. At the same time, the leaders of Mongolia, landlocked and dependent on China and ...

In his hometown in China, the 49-year-old taught traditional Mongolian language, the cursive script of Khans and poets, that once dominated an empire from the Sea of Japan to Eastern Europe.