It has been almost 80 years since Mongolia switched to using the Cyrillic alphabet. Why is the government now promoting the traditional bichig script? At stake is an 800-year-old script with a ...

In a classroom in Mongolia's capital, students pass over the Soviet-era Cyrillic alphabet they grew up with and turn their copybooks sideways to practice the traditional, vertical Mongolian script ...

Genghis Khan as depicted in a 15th century manuscript. Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France On August 26 China passed a law to sideline teaching in the Mongolian language in the region of Inner ...

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Assyrian Christian stele from Southern China in 3 languages (Syriac, Uyghur and Chinese) and two scripts (Syriac and Chinese). The Mongolian government on March 18 announced plans to restore the use ...