RE: Mongolian Text Processing

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Thu Nov 25 1999 - 07:12:03 EST


Ar 17:31 -0800 1999-11-24, scríobh Chris Pratley:
>I heard that recently the Mongolian government decided to stay with Cyrillic
>and give up its drive to make the traditional script the official writing
>system and promote it for government communication, maybe even schools.
>Apparently this was done because they found that it was practically too
>difficult. Do you have any information about this from your friends?

In any case the script is still in active use in China.

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