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Mongolian Alphabet

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When the Mongols were born in the valley of the Medus River, there was no written language, but in 1204, Genghis Khan ordered him to take charge of the Mongolian documents and sealing letters, and he ordered him to teach the crown prince and the kings to write the Mongolian language in the Woodland Script.

Mongolians up to this point will take the fear of the Woods letters to write the Mongolian language, known in the academic community as the migratory birds Mongolian, Mongolia began to use the migratory birds letters to spell their own language. This writing system is the predecessor of the current Mongolian language.

Current Mongolian and the original migratory Mongolian, compared with the following characteristics:

①Some of the letters of the shape of the improvement, more convenient to write;

②Some of the letters of the writing of the division, respectively, to indicate the different pronunciation;

3 supplemented with the spelling of borrowed words used in a number of letters;

4 spelling rule tends to be more strict, a word is no longer written in two segments. word is no longer written in two separate paragraphs.

The current Mongolian alphabet consists of 29 letters. Among them, 5 represent vowels and 24 represent consonants. The rounded lip vowels o, u and ? ū, ū are **** with one letter each. The consonants d and t are in most cases written one way at the beginning of words and another way at the beginning of syllables in words; ɡ and k are written the same way in feminine words.

Reference link:

Baidu Encyclopedia_Mongolian script