The 'Phags-pa script (Mongolian: дөрвөлжин үсэг dörvöljin üseg "square script"; Tibetan: ཧོར་ཡིག་གསར་པ་ hor yig gsar pa "new Mongolian script" or Chinese: 蒙古新字 měnggǔ xīnzì "new Mongolian script") was an abugida designed by the Tibetan Lama ´Gro-mgon Chos-rgyal ´Phags-pa (Drogön Chögyal Phagpa) for the emperor Kublai Khan during the Yuan Dynasty in China, as a unified script for all languages within the Yuan Dynasty, although the effort to promot...
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The 'Phags-pa script (Mongolian: дөрвөлжин үсэг dörvöljin üseg "square script"; Tibetan: ཧོར་ཡིག་གསར་པ་ hor yig gsar pa "new Mongolian script" or Chinese: 蒙古新字 měnggǔ xīnzì "new Mongolian script") was an abugida designed by the Tibetan Lama ´Gro-mgon Chos-rgyal ´Phags-pa (Drogön Chögyal Phagpa) for the emperor Kublai Khan during the Yuan Dynasty in China, as a unified script for all languages within the Yuan Dynasty, although the effort to promote this script was largely unsuccessful. It fell out of use after the dynasty was overturned by the Ming Dynasty. The vast documentation about its use gives modern linguists many clues about the changes of the Chinese languages and other Asian languages during the period.
The script was a practical system that saw widespread use for almost a hundred years. The script unified all the many language groups in the Mongolian empire, including such unrelated language families as Chinese, Tibetan, Turkic and Mongolian.
The Uyghur-based Mongolian...
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