Mongolian
ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭSample Characters
First 48 characters from Mongolian (U+1800–U+18AA)
About Mongolian
The Mongolian script (ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ) is one of the few scripts in the world written vertically, from top to bottom, in columns that read from left to right. It was adopted by the Mongols around the 13th century CE from the Old Uyghur script (which itself descended from Sogdian and Aramaic).
The Mongolian script is still used as the official script in Inner Mongolia (China), while Mongolia itself switched to the Cyrillic script under Soviet influence in the 1940s. Efforts to restore the traditional script are ongoing in Mongolia. The script was used to write the Secret History of the Mongols, the oldest surviving Mongol literary work.
Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.
Script Family & Lineage
Languages Using Mongolian 1
Frequently Asked Questions
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Key Facts
- ISO Code
- Mong
- ISO Number
- 145
- Direction
- Top-to-bottom
- Status
- Living
- Region
- Central Asian
- Characters
- 168
- Introduced
- 1204 CE
- Languages
- 1
Unicode Ranges
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MongolianU+1800–U+18AA
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Mongolian SupplementU+11660–U+1166C