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Surprised there’s not a Cyrillic version. As far as I know, most Mongolian people can’t fluently read that script.

Edit: Apparently the government is pushing for increased use of the Mongolian alphabet in official documents.

> Surprised there’s not a Cyrillic version.

Well, when you access https://president.mn/mng/, it would be weird for them to give you the version of the page that you asked not to get.

Go to https://president.mn/ and it's all Cyrillic.

What's the surprise?

Probably, the person you are responding to does not understand that "mng" in the URL means "Mongolian written in the Mongolian script" and did not guess either that the letters "MN" at bottom left meant "Mongolian written in the Cyrillic script".

And why would they?

The biggest surprise here is your answer, IMO.

Fair enough, that makes sense. I’d clocked there was a language toggle to the English version but didn’t think to remove the path. Thanks for the heads up!

It isn't actually a toggle, but a pair of links to the other two versions, MN and EN. EN version has two links as well, to MN and MNG versions.

Don't worry, they will learn as quickly as they quickly learned the Cyrillic alphabet, which appeared in Mongolia in 1940 only. And for this it will not be necessary to kill as many people in the "purges" as they were killed by the "Choibalsan's troikas".

I'm pretty sure the majority of the Mongolian people were illiterate before then, since education was mostly limited to monks.

don't mention the Celtic language, you will break the immersion in your narrative

I was fascinated to learn there are more Mongolians living in China than in Mongolia.

They still learn the traditional Mongolian script.

There was some uproar a few years back when the government required core classes like math and science to be taught in Chinese, but the rest is still taught in Mongolian.

Mongolian script is also printed on Chinese currency, in addition to Tibetan, Uyghur, and Zhuang.

>I was fascinated to learn there are more Mongolians living in China than in Mongolia.

*Mongols. They are Chinese Mongols. Not Mongolian nationals living in China.

PS: Not trying to be the "actually" guy, I'm making the correction because I was confused at first so I had to look it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongols_in_China

Literally the first line of the Wikipedia article:

> Mongols in China or Mongolian Chinese

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