Re: Mongolian script and Uyghur

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Thu Jul 15 1999 - 14:20:42 EDT


Ar 13:32 -0700 1999-07-14, scr�obh Timothy Partridge:
>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.)

It was not intended to be so. I doubt anyone has looked at the Uyghur
repertoire sufficiently to determine whether it could be considered a
variant of Mongolian, though.

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