Galik script
| Galik script | ||
|---|---|---|
| Font | alphabet | |
| languages |
Mongolian Tibetan Sanskrit |
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| inventor | Ajuusch Güüsch | |
| Emergence | 1587 | |
| Usage time | Since 1587 | |
| Used in |
Mongolia Inner Mongolia , China |
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| Officially in | Inner Mongolia , China | |
| ancestry |
Syriac alphabet → Sogdian alphabet → Uighur alphabet → Mongolian script → Galik script |
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| particularities | vertically from left to right | |
| Unicode block | U + 1800 - U + 18AF | |
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The Galik script ( Mongolian Али-гали үсэг , Ali-Gali üseg , resp.ᠠᠯᠢ ᢉᠠᠯᠢ ᠦᠰᠦᠭ, Ali Gali u̇su̇g ; to Sanskrit आलि कालि āli kāli , the first vowel and the first consonant sign of the Devanagari alphabet) is an extension of the traditional Mongolian script . It was created in 1587 by the translator and scholar Ajuusch Güüsch (Аюуш гүүш), inspired by the 3rd Dalai Lama , Sonam Gyatso . He added additional characters in order to be able to transcribe terms from Tibetan and Sanskrit when translating religious texts , and later also from Chinese . Some of these characters are still used to spell foreign language names today.
Some authors, especially historical sources such as Isaac Taylor in his The alphabet: an account of the origin and development of letters of 1883, make no distinction between the Galik script and the normal Mongolian script.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar: Introduction to the Mongolian Scriptures . Buske, 2008, ISBN 978-3-87548-500-4 .