In a classroom in Mongolia's capital, students pass over the Soviet-era Cyrillic alphabet they grew up with and turn their copybooks sideways to practice the traditional, vertical Mongolian script ...
At stake is an 800-year-old script with a multicultural lineage emanating from the golden era of the Silk Route. Genghis Khan as depicted in a 15th century manuscript. Credit: Bibliothèque nationale ...
ON THE FIRST day of the school year in Inner Mongolia, a northern province of China, some teachers in schools using the Mongolian language found their classrooms empty. To show their anger at an ...