ANU Mongolia Institute Seminar Series 2023
The ANU Mongolia Institute hosts an interdisciplinary series of presentations on Mongolia. The sessions typically include a 45-minute presentation of recent research or fieldwork on a topic related to Mongolia or the Mongolian diaspora, followed by an opportunity to chat and get caught up on what the institute is doing.
The reintroduction of the Mongolian script in Mongolia
Two written forms of the Mongolian language are in use today, namely the Cyrillic script and the classic Mongolian script. The Cyrillic script is the dominant writing system used in Mongolia. Mongolia is in the process of reviving the Mongolian script via the National Mongolian Script Programme III. In April 2022, Dr Tergel Teneg conducted fieldwork in Ulaanbaatar to observe the current progress of this Programme. This paper analyses the current implementation of the Programme from the perspective of language policy to discuss various issues relating to education, usage and people’s attitude towards the use of the two different writing systems.
About the speaker
Dr Tergel Teneg is originally from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. She received her first degree from Minzu University of China in 2011, specialising in Mongolian Language and Literature. She moved to the UK in 2014 and received her Master's degree in Translation Studies at Cardiff University (Wales). She completed a PhD in Translation Studies at the Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland) in 2021. In 2021, She worked as a Research Associate at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Unit of the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. She is currently working as a research grant facilitator at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Cambridge. Her research interests are in the fields of language ideology, bilingualism, digraphia, language policy, and second language acquisition.