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Humun Bichig Newspaper

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The traditional Mongolian script was purged in 1941 as the people of Mongolia shifted to the Cyrillic alphabet under Soviet pressure. Humun Bichig is the only newspaper published using the traditional Mongolian script today and documents how Mongolia has struggled, since its immediate transition to democracy, to adapt the traditional Mongolian script to society the struggle of which is still ongoing.


Collection Overview

Date Created
1992 - 2013

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Repository
Humun Bichig
ARK
ark:/21198/z1wx1rth
MANIFEST URL
IIIF Manifest

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Rights Holder
elbeg_b2004@yahoo.com; msvfoundation@yahoo.com

Notes

Description
This collection includes 895 editions of the Humun Bichig newspaper, the only newspaper still published in the traditional Mongolian script today. The collection covers the period 1992 - 2013, documenting the transition of the nation of Mongolia from socialist era to democracy and market economy. The collection also reflects the nationwide attempt to get rid off the Russian Cyrillic script and shift back to the traditional Mongolian writing system.

Keywords

Genre
newspapers
Subjects
Mongolian script
Mongolia--History
Mongolian newspapers
Subject Geographic
Mongolia

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