In a classroom in Mongolia's capital, students pass over the Soviet-era Cyrillic alphabet they grew up with and turn their copybooks sideways to practice the traditional, vertical Mongolian script ...

Genghis Khan as depicted in a 15th century manuscript. Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France On August 26 China passed a law to sideline teaching in the Mongolian language in the region of Inner ...

ULAN BATOR, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia held a ceremony on Friday to reward the winners of a national alphabet writing contest, a move to introduce and promote the country's traditional language. The ...

ULAN BATOR, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia has officially begun using both the Cyrillic and traditional Mongolian scripts for legal papers and official documents, starting this year, local media reported ...

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ON THE FIRST day of the school year in Inner Mongolia, a northern province of China, some teachers in schools using the Mongolian language found their classrooms empty. To show their anger at an ...

HOHHOT, China (Reuters) - Annie Feng seems like an easy-going person, with her ready smile and happy demeanor. Sign up here. But ask the young teacher who she wants to marry and her expression turns ...