Classical Mongolian language
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Classical Mongolian was the literary language of Mongolian that was first introduced shortly after 1600, when Ligdan Khan set his clergy the task of translating the whole of the Tibetan Buddhist canon, consisting of the Kangyur and Tengyur, into Mongolian.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". This script then became the established writing system used for all Mongolian literature until the 1930s when the Mongolian Latin alphabet was introduced, which then in 1941 was replaced by the Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Classical Mongolian was formerly used in Mongolia, China, and Russia. It is a standardized written language used in the 18th century and 20th centuries.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Classical Mongolian sometimes refers to any language documents in Mongolian script that are neither Pre-classical (i.e. Middle Mongol in the Mongolian script) nor modern Mongolian.[1]
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- ↑ e.g. Linguist List entry for Classical Mongolian Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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