Mongolian Monuments in 'Phags-pa Script: Introduction, Transliteration, Transcription and Bibliography

by Tumurtogoo Domi

The Phags-pa script represents one of the ancient scripts not only of Mongols but also of many oriental nations. When Khubilai Khan set up a great empire of Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, it comprised the Chinese, Jurchens, Mongols, Uighurs, Turks and Tibetans. The state policy of Khubilai Khan was directed to unify all these different people spoken by different languages and dialects through a new specific script that is able to serve equally to all of them. This new script is known as Phags-pa script by the name of its creator. The Phags-pa script was in active use for about a hundred year during the Yuan period, and obviously with a collapse of the empire, it was pressed out of public use.

453 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2010