A similar plan was abandoned after it was launched in 1994. Government documents and media have been available in both versions since 2011.
So presumably this new announcement is actually banning the modern alphabet? The article isn't clear but that's implied as apparently supporting both will end in 2024. Adding an option is a very different proposition to removing all other options in my option but maybe the government are just announcing a plan to keep both and doing a really bad job at communicating that?
Per wikipedia, the script is not well supported. This is partly because letters have different forms depending on their position in a word. So "academia" would need to use 3 different symbols for all those "a"s. It has 26 actual letters but a lot more symbols to learn to allow for that.
And (like a lot of alphabets) it's actually based on Egyptian hieroglyphs. So it's an import too!
Per the article, 3m (of Mongolia's 3.17m) people use the modern alphabet. So this will be a huge disruption for 95% of the population of Mongolia.
There is no current way to translate (transliterate?) names directly from one to the other. So that will make ID documents either insecure or useless if they're in different languages, which they will have to be since we are talking about documents already printed...
Plus the time and effort to learn the new alphabet is time and effort spent NOT learning useful skills in a modern economy.
The only advantage seems to be to communicate with Mongolian Ethnicity people in China who are more likely to still use the old alphabet. Oh and something about throwing off the USSR?
I really hope this is just a badly translated announcement that no action will be taken...
So presumably this new announcement is actually banning the modern alphabet? The article isn't clear but that's implied as apparently supporting both will end in 2024. Adding an option is a very different proposition to removing all other options in my option but maybe the government are just announcing a plan to keep both and doing a really bad job at communicating that?
https://web.archive.org/web/20111101013639/http://ubpost.mon...
Per wikipedia, the script is not well supported. This is partly because letters have different forms depending on their position in a word. So "academia" would need to use 3 different symbols for all those "a"s. It has 26 actual letters but a lot more symbols to learn to allow for that. And (like a lot of alphabets) it's actually based on Egyptian hieroglyphs. So it's an import too!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script
Per the article, 3m (of Mongolia's 3.17m) people use the modern alphabet. So this will be a huge disruption for 95% of the population of Mongolia.
There is no current way to translate (transliterate?) names directly from one to the other. So that will make ID documents either insecure or useless if they're in different languages, which they will have to be since we are talking about documents already printed...
Plus the time and effort to learn the new alphabet is time and effort spent NOT learning useful skills in a modern economy.
The only advantage seems to be to communicate with Mongolian Ethnicity people in China who are more likely to still use the old alphabet. Oh and something about throwing off the USSR?
I really hope this is just a badly translated announcement that no action will be taken...