1639: Mongolian Writing Jun 10, 2019

Standardization of a language is usually seen as a progressive step in cementing history and increasing intelligibility, but this is not permanent. Classical Mongolian was standardized starting in the 17th century, but fell between Middle Mongolian and Modern Mongolian, so not only were the sounds rapidly changing making the older lettering system obsolete or inadequate, but this period was marked with great political changes. Classical Mongolian's orthography was highly standardized, unlike today, where there is some standardizations, but multiple writing systems are used, mostly Mongolian script or Cyrillic, or sometimes Chinese characters for the large Mongolian population in China. 
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