Mongolia starts using traditional Mongol script in public office www.akipress.com
Starting in 2025, public office activities in Mongolia will be conducted in dual scripts, Cyrillic and Mongol Script, in line with the Law on the Mongolian Language, the Ministry of Education of Mongolia reported.
"In order to implement the law on the Mongolian language, adopted by the Parliament in 2015, state organizations and local governments will use the classical script in documents in addition to the Cyrillic script from 2025," the Ministry said in a statement.
The law came into force on January 1, and the implementation began on January 2 as the first working day of 2025. Educational institutions will teach the national Mongolian script to ensure the implementation of the law.
According to the widespread theory on the creation of a national script, Genghis Khan issued a decree on the adaptation of the Uyghur script to the Mongolian language. While signing treaties with China, where hieroglyphs were written vertically, the Mongols introduced a vertical system of their writing. The earliest monument, a text carved on a stone stele known as the "Genghis Stone," is kept in the Hermitage.
Published Date:2025-01-07