October 21-23, 2013 The Department of Languages of the Peoples of Russia of the Institute of Linguistic Research (ILI) organized an international scientific conference "Mongolian Languages: History and Modernity". The geography of participants is very extensive: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ulan-Ude and Elista, China and Japan, Hungary, Finland and Sweden. N. N. Kazansky, Director of ILI RAS, a specialist in classical philology, spoke about the history of Mongolian studies at ILI (former Institute of Linguistics of the USSR Academy of Sciences), associated with the names of V. M. Nadelyaev, L. A. Karabayeva, S. L. Charekov, and about the scientists who continue their work now. The conference covered a number of thematic areas. Tsagaansar-Zheng Yue (Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China) made a report "One of the samples of the square letter monument, which was the state alphabet of the Yuan Dynasty (on the example of inscriptions on Tibetan coins)". She told about this find, its origin, the materials on which the text was applied. After classifying the coins, she identified four types of "khor-ig" - a Mongolian square letter composed by the Pagba Lama, and analyzed the features of its signs. The author has established a common tradition of writing the letters of this letter. The text is written vertically, and lines are drawn from left to right. There is an opinion that such a letter fell out of use with the fall of the Yuan dynasty. Tsagaansar believes that these coins functioned sporadically during the Qing Dynasty. The two iron coins she found were cast in 1840 during the last stage of the Qing rule. Otgon Borzhigin (China) made a presentation " A brief introduction to the study of the passage on the "clear letter" - the manuscript "Thar-po chen-po "" The Great Liberator "(Mong. Yekedc * For more information, see: Oriens. 2014. № 3. page 158 tonilaychi "Going up")". The fragment was found in 1988 in the habitat of the Khoshut Mongols from Qinghai. The speaker described the di ... Read more