An example of several scripts being used side by side.
#savemongolianlanguage #mongolian #manchu #tibetan
Once upon a time a calligrapher or perhaps a team of calligraphers got together and designed this sign for a buddhist temple in which you can see 4 different scripts Tibetan Mongolian Manchu and Chinese Hanzi arranged in a layout that allows all of them "equal" footing.
Apparently the Sinicized Manchu Qing rulers had more respect for minority languages than certain modern Han and other bureaucrats in Inner Mongolia and Beijing who are trying to back pedal on previous policies and lessen hours of Mongolian language instruction in schools in which the Mongolian language and script is suppose to be the PRIMARY Medium of education.
Personally as a student and user of a variety of scripts, Roman, Hanzi, and others, I have often wished we have had multi lingual instruction introduced at an earlier level of schooling.
But Australia only has one majority language of instruction you might object?
Yes but we support community and correspondence and other classes for minority languages many of which can be studied at HSC level allowing students credits towards university entry.
Okay not Mongolian the community is too small ... and sadly the Hokkien and Hakka speaking communities do not get the same recognition as Cantonese or Putonghua but
DIVERSITY IS GOOD
DIVERSITY INSPIRES GOOD DESIGN
so if you see anyone posting on social media but Chinese or any other language is the majority language support bilingualism. Multilingualism Too!
I'll finish with another example of Han - Mongol cultural interchange leading to diversity and design.
Mongolian can be written with a pen or brush. Here we see a Han calligraphy technique applied to Mongol script. But typography is important too. With modern use of Unicode Mongolian and Chinese can be applied to a variety of usages street signs calligraphy BILINGUAL TEXT BOOKS
so I type and encourage you to do so too
#SAVEMONGOLIANLANGUAGE
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