Vagindra script

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Vagindra script
вагиндрын үзэглэл
Buryat script
"Mongol" in Vagindra
Script type
CreatorAgvan Dorzhiev
Createdabout 1905
Period
in the status of national writing 1905—1910
LanguagesBuryat, Russian
Related scripts
Parent systems
Sister systems
Clear script, Manchu script
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The Vagindra script (also spelled Vaghintara, Buryat: вагиндрын үзэглэл, romanized: vagindryn üzeglelCategory:Articles containing Buryat-language text) is an alphabetic script for the Buryat language developed by Agvan Dorzhiev in the first decade of the 20th century. It was used only briefly.

History

Agvan Dorzhiev, or Agvaandorj, a Khory Buryat, developed the script in 1905 with the assistance of Tseveen Jamsrano[1] as a means to cultural unification of the Buryats, naming it "Vagindra" for the Sanskrit version of his name.[2][3] He based it primarily on the Classical Mongol and Todo script,[4] expressing the hope that it would also help Buryats to read materials in the old script.[5] Approximately ten books and pamphlets were published in the script until 1910, using a hybrid dialect primarily based on stern Buryat, but it was not used after that; there was discussion in 1917 of reviving it for use in native schools, but Classical Mongol was thought more likely to foster Mongol unity.[6] Dorzhiev himself apparently lost interest in the project, and neither mentions it nor uses it in his autobiography.[7][8] It was opposed by Mikhail Bogdanov, who advocated rapid assimilation through Russian,[7] and it has been suggested that the hybrid language used presented problems for readers,[8] although evidence suggests otherwise.[7] Probably most importantly, the Tsarist government perceived Mongolian unification, and hence the Vagindra script, as a political threat and exiled some of its proponents.[2][7]

Description

Alphabet of Agvan Dorzhiev

The script is derived primarily from Classical Mongol on the analogy of the Clear script,[9] and like it is written vertically. The version published by Nicolai Amagaev and "Alamzhi-Mergen" (Rinchingiin Elbegdorj) in 1910 consists of 7 vowels and 21 consonants.[5][10] Diacritics are used to indicate long vowels (a vertical line), palatization (a circle), and letters for use in rendering Russian (a dot),[11] including a letter representing the historical Russian double consonant /ʃt͡ʃ/ (corresponding to Cyrillic Щ).[3][12][13] He also added a special letter to mark, Х (h) sound of the Buryat dialect. The alphabet can therefore also be represented as having 36 letters including 8 vowels.[9] Unlike Classical Mongol, the letter forms are invariant regardless of position in the word,[9] being based on the medial forms in Classical Mongol, with the exception of a, which is based on the Uighur script and has a reduced form in medial and final position.[5][11]

References

  1. ↑ Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar, Einführung in die mongolischen Schriften, Einführungen in fremde Schriften, Hamburg: Buske, 2008, ISBN 9783875485004, p. 55 (in German)Category:Articles with German-language sources (de)
  2. 1 2 Yeshen-Khorlo Dugarova-Montgomery and Robert Montgomery, "The Buriat Alphabet of Agvan Dorzhiev", in Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan, ed. Stephen Kotkin and Bruce A. Elleman, Armonck, New York: Sharpe, 1999, ISBN 9780765605368, pp. 79–98, p. 79.
  3. 1 2 "Script, Vagindra", Allen J. K. Sanders, Historical Dictionary of Mongolia, Historical dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East 74, 3rd ed. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow, 2010, ISBN 9780810874527.
  4. ↑ ""www.munkho.de"". munkho.de. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 Dugarova-Montgomery and Montgomery, p. 85.
  6. ↑ Dugarova-Montgomery and Montgomery, p. 86.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Dugarova-Montgomery and Montgomery, p. 88.
  8. 1 2 Chuluunbaatar, p. 57.
  9. 1 2 3 BNMAU-yn Shinzhlėkh Ukhaany Akademi, Information Mongolia: The Comprehensive Reference Source of the People's Republic of Mongolia (MPR), Countries of the world information series, Oxford/New York: Pergamon, 1990, ISBN 9780080361932, p. 61.
  10. ↑ Nikolai Amagaev and Alamzhi-Mergen, Novyi mongolo-buriatskii alfavit, St. Petersburg: Tipografiia Imperatorskoi akademii nauk, 1910, cited in Dugarova-Montgomery and Montgomery, p. 86, Chart 1, p. 87.
  11. 1 2 Chuluunbaatar, p. 56.
  12. ↑ Chart linked at Luigi Kapaj (in the SCA: Gülügjab Tangghudai), Mongol Scripts, The Silver Horde, Society for Creative Anachronism, 2003.
  13. ↑ L'écriture Buryat: L’alphabet, chart at Les écritures, Aleph2, archived on 2012-01-27 (in French)Category:Articles with French-language sources (fr)

Further reading

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