Mongolian Cyrillic Alphabet
Before using Mongolian Cyrillic script mongolian official script was old Mongolian writing. After Mongolian people’ revolution with assistance Soviet union. new Mongolia started to develop in all sector. and Russians influenced mongolian All sector. All mongolian political leaders educated in Soviet union and get assistance from Soviet leaders. 1930-1931 Mongolians used to created own alphabet by using Latin alphabet for their official language and teach to the people in whole country. but after year this initiations was not succeeded at all because of the nationality, pre-preparations and less number of people was literates at the time. so they still using old mongolian script.
Between 1934-1940, Mongolian literacy was run successfully and people who have learned reached from 320000- 720000 with old mongolian script. in 1941, mongolian scientists was created new script using adopting from Russian Cyrillic Alphabet and added 2 letters (Ө, Ү) to the Russian Cyrillic. from academic year 1941-1942, primary school students started to learn New mongolian Cyrillic Alphabet and then since 1946, mongolian Cyrillic script has been in official script in republic Mongolia.
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The Mongolian alphabet has 35 letters. It consists of 20 consonants, 13 vowels and 2 sign letters with audio.
LETTER PRONUNCIATION SOUNDS AS IN ENGLISH bold
А а aah as in us
Б б beh as in ball
В в weh as in west, vest, wet, owe, vain
Г г geh as in get, gum, dog
Д д deh as in and, hard, dad
Е е yeh as in yet
Ё ё yoh as in yo yo
Ж ж jeh as in Jet
З з zeh as in zero
И и i as in it, if
Й й i (used with another vowels) as in ink
К к kah as in walk, work
Л л il as in silk
М м im as in milk
Н н in as in mint
О о ooh as in ball, all, doll
Ө ө öh as in her, term, earn
П п peh as in gap
Р р err as in cheers, hear
С с iss as in sister, risk, miss, mist
Т т teh as in list, test, state, hut, step, hot
У у uuh as in bull
Ү ү üüh as in who
Ф ф feh as in cafe
Х х heh as in hey
Ц ц tseh as in tsunami
Ч ч cheh as in lunch, check, rich
Ш ш sh as in finish, push, wish
Щ щ sh (used in Russian words) as in Shanghai
Ъ ъ no sound sign letter
Ы ы eeh as in mean, weak, seal
Ь ь no sound sign letter
Э э eh as in egg, edit, set
Ю ю yuh as in use, huge, cute
Я я yah as in soya
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