LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM

Name of requester          : Peter Constable
E-mail address of requester: <petercon&microsoft.com>
Tag to be registered       : mn-Mong

English name of language   : Mongolian in Mongolian script
Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): mongol

Reference to published description of the language (book or article):

Mongolian has been written since the 12th century CE in the Mongolian script, 
but has at times also been written in Arabic, Chinese and Phags-pa scripts, 
and most recently also Cyrillic script. Since 1941, Cyrillic script has been 
the primary script used in the country of Mongolia, while Mongolian script is 
the primary script used in China.

It is often required, when matching languages, to select a subset of documents 
written in a particular script. When looking up language resources, this is 
even more important, so that text in different scripts is not mixed.

Thus, it is important to be able to distinguish between scripts used in 
writing mn: mn-Mong vs. mn-Cyrl, etc.

References:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mongolian.htm
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/khk.htm (Cyrillic script) 
http://www.language-museum.com/m/mongolian-halh-cyrillic.htm (Cyrillic script) 
http://www.language-museum.com/m/mongolian-halh-traditional.htm (Mongolian script)
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(created 12 April 2005)

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