Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet
by simonh on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:26AM
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That's beautiful, thanks. My wife is Han Chinese from Inner Mongolia, where the traditional script is used widely in signage, posters, dual-language leaflets and such so I'm quite familiar with the look of traditional Mongolian script. In fact until now I had no idea Mongolia itself largely used a different script.
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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet
by mhotchen on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:12AM
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Mongolia adopted Cyrillic during its early communist years which saw heavy influence from the USSR. They started adopting their traditional script in schools again a few years ago, but the older people didn't know how to read or write it unfortunately. I saw the traditional script being used sparingly in Ulaanbator around 2017 but as for the rest of the country I don't think I saw it at all, except in Buddhist temples (which were also mostly destroyed during the communist era unfortunately).
Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet
by mytailorisrich on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:13AM
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Mongolian is also one of the scripts on Chinese bank notes, along with Tibetan and Uyghur, in addition to Chinese characters.