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 an historic shift, official business in Mongolia must now be conducted in both Cyrillic and the traditional Mongolian bichig script. The requirement was brought in on January 2 under a new dual ...

Providing evidence of this, the Stele of Genghis Khan – a stone dating back to the 1200s bearing the first known Mongolian script – depicted a nobleman named Yesunge who managed to shoot a ...