Graphic showing different scripts in use in the country of Mongolia, and the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. AFP / John SAEKI In a classroom in Mongolia's capital, students pass over the ...

At stake is an 800-year-old script with a multicultural lineage emanating from the golden era of the Silk Route. Genghis Khan as depicted in a 15th century manuscript. Credit: Bibliothèque nationale ...

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 ...

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 ...

ULAN BATOR, March 18 (Xinhua) -- The Mongolian government on Wednesday approved a national program to promote the traditional Mongolian script and improve its usage across the country. The program ...

ULAN BATOR, Jan. 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 ...

The Mongolians live mostly in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with the rest residing in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Hebei, Henan, Sichuan, Yunnan and ...

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 ...