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Mongolia: Mongolian script. Yuan Dynasty Official Pass in Phags-pa script (The Vinokurov Tablet)

Mongolia: Mongolian script. Yuan Dynasty Official Pass in Phags-pa script (The Vinokurov Tablet)

The Mongolian language is the official language of Mongolia and the best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China.

In Mongolia, the Khalkha dialect, written in Cyrillic (and at times in Latin for social networking), is predominant, while in Inner Mongolia, the language is dialectally more diverse and is written in the traditional Mongolian script.

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