Sharon Correll wrote:

> (2) I'm realizing that until yesterday I was assuming that Mongolian
> syllables always showed up in a nice CV pattern, with maybe a
> spare initial vowel or final consonant. I guess this was because of
> the chart I've been working from. Now I'm suspecting that may not be
> the case. If you have aseries of consonants, are "a" forms used for
> all but the last? (ie, "bgmno" would be written the same as
> "bagamano"?) Similarly, can you have sequences of vowels?

My understanding is that Mongolian is an *alphabet*, not an abugida. So
there should be no inherent vowels or "syllable syntax": any combination of
letters that would be pronounceable is fine.

> (4) Any idea where can I find a nice-quality, *free*
> Mongolian TrueType
> font that I might be able to get permission to modify (add tables)?

Omniglot lists two of them (towards the end of the page):

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mongolian.htm

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