On 24/06/06, Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@...> wrote:
>
> The Mongolian near-alphabetic script doesn't go back all that far -- to
> Genghis or Kublai Khan (whichever came later [the other one commissioned
> hPags Pa, which unfortunately didn't catch on]). It's a modification of
> the Uyghur modification of the ...

... or whichever came first, maybe.

Andrew