Mongolian script and Uyghur

From: Timothy Partridge (timpart@perdix.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 14 1999 - 15:04:23 EDT


Can anyone tell me if the new Mongolian addition in version 3.0 is intended
for use in writing Uyghur? (Or Uyghur as written in 7th and 8th centuries -
it seems to have had many scripts.)

The reason I ask is that in "The World's Writing Systems", Ed Daniels &
Bright it says "At the very beginning of the Mongol empire, the Uyghur
alphabet became the writing system of the Mongols... The whole set of
symbols together with the orthography was borrowed, and for several
centuries no new letters were created..." (page 545).

If it is likely to be put to use for Uyghur I have an erratum for the
Unicode properties database.

   Tim
  

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Tim Partridge. Any opinions expressed are mine only and not those of my employer



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