About an Attempt to Use the Cyrillic Alphabet for the Mongolian Language

• Authors: Vladimir Uspensky

Abstracts

EN

An attempt to create a written Mongolian language based on the Cyrillic script is linked to the missionary activities of Archbishop Nil (1799-1874) among the Buryat Mongols. On his initiative, several Christian liturgical books were translated into Mongolian and printed in St. Petersburg. However, Nil and his assistants did not take into account the discrepancy between written and spoken Mongolian language and transcribed every letter of the Mongolian written language with corresponding Cyrillic letters and thus did no in any way make the texts closer to the spoken language.

Keywords

EN

Mongolian language; the Buryats; Christianity; Russian Orthodox Church; Christian missionaries; Cyrillic script

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 249-258

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Vladimir Uspensky

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/ro.2019.127214

Biblioteka Nauki

57101248