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Traditional Mongolian script-The only vertical script in the world

Mongolian script

In 1204, Chinggis (Genghis) khan declared Mongolian classical script as an official alphabet for newly established empire of Mongolian tribes. Mongolian script is the only alphabet in the world that is written vertically. At the end of the first millennium AD (VIII-IX centuries) ancient Uyghurs and Mongols adopted their vertical scripts from the Sogdian alphabet, […]