Isaac Jacob Schmidt
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Isaac Jacob Schmidt was an Orientalist specialising in Mongolian and Tibetan studies. Schmidt was a Moravian missionary to the Kalmyks and devoted much of his labour to Bible translation.
Isaac Jacob Schmidt
Mongolian language
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Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau. It is spoken by ethnic Mongols and other closely related Mongolic peoples who are native t
Isaac Jacob Schmidt
…Russian: Яков Иванович (Исаак Якоб) Шмидт; 25 October [O.S. 14 October] 1779 — 20 September [O.S. 8 September] 1847 ) was an Orientalist specialising in Mongolian and Tibetan studies. Schmidt was a Moravian missionary to the Kalmyks and devoted much of his labour to Bible translation. Born in Amsterdam, he spent…
Edict of Kublai Khan (1289). Only the 'Phags-pa script retains the complete Middle Mongol vowel system.
Nova N 176 found in Kyrgyzstan. The manuscript (dating to the 12th century Western Liao) is written in the Mongolic Khitan language using cursive Khitan large script. It has 127 leaves and 15,000 characters.
Mongolian script and Mongolian Cyrillic on Sükhbaatar's statue in Ulaanbaatar