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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