Unlocking the Universe of Languages
While most of the world writes horizontally, and East Asian scripts traditionally flow vertically from right to left, the traditional Mongolian script is a linguistic anomaly: it is written in…
In the 13th century, Kublai Khan commissioned a single, official script to unite the vast, multilingual Mongol Empire. The result was Phags-pa, a unique, vertically-written alphabet designed to write everything…