Mongolian Alphabet Makers
The Mongolian alphabet was the work of three Tibetan lamas:
 | Sa
Skya made the adaptation from the central Asian Uighur alphabet in A.D. 1247-51. |
 | Phags-Pa
made an adaptation from the Indic Tibetan alphabet for Kublai Khan, in A.D.
1260. |  | Tsordji-Osir
combined the features of both the Uighur and Tibetan alphabets, in A.D. 1307-11,
to successfully represent Mongolian speech. |
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