Mongolian Spelling, Punctuation and Vocabulary

- The Mongolian language uses the Cyrillic alphabet similar to Russian
- The Mongolian alphabet has 35 letters
- The “direction of writing is from left to right in vertical columns running from top to bottom” (www.koreanhistoryproject.org)
- Mongolian spelling “is generally simple, because most words are spelled like they sound” (www.koreanhistoryproject.org)
- Mongolian vocabulary has “picked up a great many loan words from Old Turkic, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese” (www.transparent.com)
- More modern vocabulary has roots in Russian, Chinese and English
- New words are often “formed by translating foreign terms into new words formed with Mongolian roots” (www.transparent.com)