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in: Esengü Bitig: Doğumunun 60. Yılında Zühal Ölmez Armağanı, Tümer Karaayak – Uğur Uzunkaya, Editor, Kesit, İstanbul, pp.141-158, 2021
Abstract: The Mongols have tried and used many scripts throughout their history.
The earliest definitive sources of the Mongolian language begin from the VI-VII century
and then left extensively sources in the XIII, XIV century. While the sources are written in
Uyghur script from different alphabetical sources has the characteristics of old
Mongolian, the sources written in Chinese, ‘Phags-pa (square), Arabic script bear the
characteristics of middle period Mongolian. Various scripted sources from the XVII
century are evidence of contemporary Mongolian. In this article, we aimed to make a
general introduction based on the exact written sources we have reached the writings that
the Mongols have used. We gathered the sources of Mongolian Alphabetic history under
the title Brahmi script, Chinese origin script, Sogdian Uighur origin script, Mongolian
sources with Arabic script, Sanskrit, Tibetan script, Latin script, and Cyrillic script.