Mongolian hPhags-pa
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| Category | Language > Ancient |
| Date added | 31 July 2004 |
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| Description | The hPhags-pa script was created under the order of Khubilai, the Great Khan of the Mongols, as an official and universal script for his vast empire that stretched from China to Russia and crossed ethnic and cultural borders. The script already employed to write Mongolian at that time was originally borrowed from the script used to write Uighur, a Turkic language, and did not fit well phonetically with Mongolian. Therefore, in 1269 CE, the Khan charged his personal lama, Matidhvaja Sribhadra, also known as hPhags-pa Lama, to create a script to replace the existing Mongolian script. Since hPhags-pa Lama was Tibetan, he created a new script based on his native Tibetan script, but he also borrowed some elements from Mongolian as well. As the Mongolian Empire fractured, so did the hPhags-pa script cease to be used. From conception to demise, the hPhags-pa script lasted no more than 100 years. |
