Our next initiative: supporting Mongolian culture, language, and script
The Endangered Alphabets are planning a major project to support the Mongolian people’s efforts to protect and promote their language and its beautiful traditional script, and we’ll need your help.
We’re recruiting illustrators and Mongolian calligraphers and translators; we’ll also be launching a fundraiser to create a range of language tools, both educational and fun, that incorporate the script. Stay tuned!
In the meantime, here’s just one example of the way in which the Mongolian script is used as art–a white-blue porcelain vase made by Tamir in Jingdezhen, 2018. It includes inscriptions in three different traditional Mongolian scripts: Soyombo script at the top, Mongolian traditional Uyghuric script in the middle and Orkhon Turkic rune script at the bottom. Made in participation in a New Silk Road Project, Jingdezhen, China 2018 and taken from the @calligraphie.mongole Instagram feed.
We’ll be doing all we can to promote this kind of work, and I’ll also be doing a large carving based on Mongolian calligraphy. As I say, watch this space, and help us if you can.
Thanks!
Kurtis
September 23, 2020 @ 4:23 pm
Hi Tim,
I have spoken with a few contacts and am hoping to see if some calligraphers might be able to help you.
I can post their FB pages here and you can contact them directly. I do not know them, but a friend from Mongolia knew some of them and suggested a few people and thought that they might be interested in working on this project.
Khongoruud B. Sergelen
https://www.facebook.com/serugerenn
Баттулгын Алтантуяа
https://www.facebook.com/altantuya0730
Amarsanaa Lkhagva
https://www.facebook.com/lkhagva.amarsanaa