Re: [OM] Travelogue: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

[Martin Walters]

Chris:
The Cyrillic text is written left to right. The Uyghur alphabet is 
vertical - see this photo for an example.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14675507@N08/3177779141/in/set-72157612245771533/

Martin

Chris Crawford wrote:
> Cool photos. Do they write vertically using the Cyrillic alphabet? Before
> Mongolia came under Soviet domination in the 20th century, the Mongolians
> wrote using the Uyghur alphabet, which is a native writing system that is
> written vertically.
> 
> 

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