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Contents 1 Two questions about the content 2 Split? 3 Unicode 4 Category:Languages of China 5 Mongolian Alphabet Has No Relation to Chinese Alphabet 6 Mongolian Wikipedia 7 One question about the year

[edit] Two questions about the content

Two points:

• There is hPaghs-pa character in between the period using the Mongolian script.
• Did the Mongolian uses Jurchen/Tangut characters other than Han characters before they use the Mongolian script?

218.188.0.150 02:05, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Split?

I'd like to split this article into:

• brief history of writing systems applied to the Mongolian language
• individual writing systems.

The former will be titled Mongolian writing system or Mongolian writing systems, and I will introduce the classical Mongolian script, 'Phags-pa script (Square script), Todo script, Soyombo script, Horizontal square script, Ali Gali, Vagindra script, Latin alphabet and Cyrillic alphabet (and perhaps the Khitan script). --Nanshu 01:11, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Our naming conventions ask us to use singlular form when it exists, so this would cause too much confusion. Just use different section headers. --Jiang 01:29, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Then I will put the former at Mongolian writing system. I don't like to put different things at the same page (and I think my opinion conforms to Wikipedia's policy).

One problem is that both the traditional Mongolian script and the extended Cyrillic alphabet are called "Mongolian alphabet". --Nanshu 02:48, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Trying to disambiguate things with plural/singular is just going to confuse people. Try Mongolian alphabet (traditional) and Mongolian alphabet (Cyrillic). Things should be really on the same page if theyre related though. A separate article on the writing system as a whole is not needed - that can be simply done at Mongolian language as it is done for all other languages. --Jiang 04:50, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

But there is no other language that has been applied more writing systems than the Mongolian language (and that's why I'm interested in Mongolian). Ths history of writing systems is worth separate article. --Nanshu 03:23, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Go ahead and write whatever...we can always move/merge if the need is present. --Jiang 03:49, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Dont forget also that a latin based system was in use in the 1930's but was dropped in favour of a cyrillic based system. I have a reference (but have not had a chance to follow it up):- Edward A. Allworth "Nationalities of the Soviet East: Publications and Writing Systems" (Columbia U.P. 1971) —talpa

[edit] Unicode

Does anyone know if the Mongolian alphabet was Unicode-ized? If it was it would be good to put a chart here. Wikiacc 21:55, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

There is a Mongolian alphabet in Unicode, see [1], also compare the roadmaps [2], [3]. If you know which Mongalian script this is, you can add the info to the article. --Pjacobi 22:22, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ah, I found a proposal to encode Phagspa [4], so the already encoded Mongolian would, be the "Mongolian script proper", I assume. And now, I've found it also in the roadmap. It is roadmapped for U+A840..U+A880. --Pjacobi 22:30, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Well, obviously the Latin- and Cyrillic-based ones have already been Unicode-ized. The traditional script I am looking into, thanks for the chart. If you or anyone else wants to do it first, please do so, I will have to see if I have any supporting fonts and all that. Wikiacc 23:39, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Languages of China

Some IP keeps on putting this in Category:Languages of China. Does this belong in that category? I'm of the impression that it doesn't, because an "alphabet" is not the same thing as a "language". Comments? Wikiacc 21:32, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I fully agree. The whole "Languages of" idea is somewhat flawed, but I won't interfere with it. But by simple application of logic it is clear that "X alphabet" cannot be in "Category:Languages of Y". --Pjacobi 15:24, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)

This is what the IP posted on my talk page:

1. The Mongolian lanugage used to be written with a derivative of Han characters, from Khitan language.

2. Mongolia was part of Chinese history.

3. There are sizeable Mongolian speakers in present-day Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the PRC.

Thank you.

I think by this comment the anon was referring to Mongolian language which does fit into that category by the reasons described. But "Mongolian alphabet" is the page at issue here, not "Mongolian language". Wikiacc 21:04, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Yes categorizing should be easy, as long as we have separate language and script articles, as is the case here. --Pjacobi 21:29, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)

In the text accompanying the .png file with the word Mongol there is a summary that states that the columns of mongolian are written from right to left. This should be from left to right, as is also stated in the main page. --Malo Hautus 20:50, 2006 Jan 16

I have mistaken the writing direction. The text accompanying the .png files have been corrected.--Hello World! 15:03, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mongolian Alphabet Has No Relation to Chinese Alphabet

Mongolia's first known biggest empire was Hunnu Empire which was in 209BC. China was named different at that time and it was a neighbor of Hunnu Empire. China built Great Wall to protect from its neighbor "north barbarians" - Mongolians. Mongolia and China are two separate countries and Mongolia never used Chinese alphabet in its history. Whoever works on Wikipedia project, please don't try to "create" biased history to brainwash people by forcing wrong information. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Omnip (talk • contribs).

[edit] Mongolian Wikipedia

The Mongolian Wikipedia uses the still common Cyrillic script, but a Mongolian Wiki should also use the Mongolian script proper. -Alexander 007 19:21, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] One question about the year

I guess the year 1208 is wrong, because no matter on the Secret History of the Mongols, on the yüan-shi, or on the Jāmi` al-Tawārīkh of Rashīd al-Dīn, Genghis Khan defeated the Naimans on Spring 1204 (the year of the Rat or Islamic 600), and held a great Qural on Spring of the year of Tiger 1206 ( Islamic 602, which means he had conquered all mongols ), had he not captured Tatar-tonga till 1208? Though I know it is a little not so clear on the origin texts about when Tatar-tonga was captured. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 61.230.81.102 (talk) 01:00, 9 January 2007 (UTC).