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From: gls@odyssey.att.com (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc
Subject: Re: Puree Mongole
Keywords: International, character
Message-ID: <1990Jun8.170321.7830@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 8 Jun 90 17:03:21 GMT
References: <1990Jun5.112535.5788@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1990Jun5.112535.5788@agate.berkeley.edu>, dankg@volcano writes:
>
> 	Local difference spans from simply number of character set to
> justification:  Arabic and Hebrew writes from left to right.  Mongolian writes
> up to down.  ...

Whoa!  Modern Mongolian uses the New Turkic Alphabet, devised by Russians
and based on the Russian Alphabet.  The old Mongolian script, which I
think was based on Persian, did indeed run top-to-bottom.  But with the
current derussianization of Mongolia, I wouldn't be surprised if the
Mongols switched to Roman, which is better suited for Turkic languages
than Cyrillic.

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