Mongolian

ISO 15924: MongAlphabet13 total languages
IANA registered: 16 October 2005

Example text

ᠬᠦᠮᠦᠨ ᠪᠦᠷ ᠲᠥᠷᠥᠵᠦ ᠮᠡᠨᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠦ ᠡᠷᠬᠡ ᠴᠢᠯᠥᠭᠡ ᠲᠡᠢ᠂ ᠠᠳᠠᠯᠢ ᠡᠷᠬᠡ ᠲᠡᠢ ᠲᠥᠷᠥᠳᠡᠭ

Rendered using a Noto web font where available; falls back to system fonts.

Writing Direction
Direction
Vertical (LTR)
RTL
No
Vertical tradition
Mongolian vertical
Source
Unicode CLDR scriptMetadata.txt + app-maintained overrides
Traditional Mongolian is written vertically with columns progressing left-to-right.
Script Properties
Family
Mongolian / Uyghur
Geographic origin
Central Asia
Usage status
Living script
OpenType tag
mong
Traditional Mongolian script, written vertically top-to-bottom. Descended from Old Uyghur (which descended from Sogdian). Still official for Mongolian in Inner Mongolia, China.

Related Scripts

PhagPhags-paZanbZanabazar Square (Zanabazarin Dörböljin Useg, Xewtee Dörböljin Bicig, Horizontal Square Script)SoyoSoyomboManiManichaeanSogdSogdian

Unicode Blocks

MongolianU+1800Mongolian SupplementU+11660

2 Unicode blocks contain Mongolian characters. Browse all Unicode blocks →

The lists below count source attestation, not current or official usage. A language can appear under several scripts. Sources, denominators and limitations.

Language-specific characters and typing resources

A script does not have one alphabet shared by every language. Compare these directly sourced CLDR locale repertoires.

Multiple-source attestation (MAIN)
11

Mongolia Buriat
bxm
China Buriat
bxu
Classical Mongolian
cmg
Daur
dta
Evenki
evn
Manchu
mnc
Mongolian
mon
Peripheral Mongolian
mvf
Old Uighur
oui
Xibe
sjo
Kalmyk
xal

Single-source attestation (AUX)
2

Southern Altai
altSingle source
Buriat
buaSingle source