Mongolian Unicode Test Page

Introduction

This page comprises a short extract from a Mongolian text encoded in Unicode, that is intended to be used as a test for Unicode fonts that support the set of Mongolian characters encoded in the Mongolian block. In order to view the Mongolian text you must have an appropriate Unicode Mongolian font installed. Furthermore, proper shaping and joining behaviour may only occur if your operating system actively supports the Mongolian script. Microsoft Vista includes a Mongolian font (Mongolian Baiti) and provides rendering support for Mongolian by means of its Uniscribe complex script rendering engine (USP10.dll).

Font Configuration

If you are using Internet Explorer and you are unable to change fonts using the form below, try this page instead (but vertical left-to-right layout will not work with IE8).

Sample Text

The Wise Young Brahman

This short story in classical Mongolian is taken from Grøbech and Krueger, An Introduction to Classical (Literary) Mongolian (Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz, 1976) Selection X (Plate I). The text was originally published in I. J. Schmidt's Grammatik der mongolischen Sprache (St. Petersburg, 1831).

Facsimile of Text

Vertical Left-to-Right Layout

This is the correct orientation and layout direction for Mongolian text, produced using the CSS writing-mode : tb-lr style. This layout is currently only supported in Internet Explorer version 8.

Vertical Right-to-Left Layout

This is the correct orientation for Mongolian text, but the wrong layout direction, produced using the CSS writing-mode : tb-rl style. To compensate for the incorrect right-to-left layout the order of the lines in the HTML code has been reversed so that the text appears to be laid out correctly. This layout is supported by Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7, but not by Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.

Horizontal Layout

This is the default orientation and layour direction when no CSS writing-mode style is applied.

Romanised Transcription of Text

erte urida kabalik balɣasun-dur biraman-u qamuɣ uqaɣan-u ǰüil-dür mergen boluɣsan sain töröl-tü kemekü
nigen biraman bülüge. tere biraman-dur sedkil-dur taɣalaqu neretü nigen qatuɣtai bülüge. tere qoyar-
ača nigen köbegün töröǰüküi. tere köbegün inu üčügüken-eče gegen oyutu yekes-ün yabudal-iyar yabuɣči
nigen bolbai. tende eke inu ay-a ene köbegün töröged sača yekes-ün yabudal-iyar yabuɣči gegen oyutu
bükü-yin tula. maɣad nigen ǰayaɣ-a-tu bui-ǰ-a kemeǰü. geigsen kemen ner-e öggüged. ai ene köbegün-
dür qamuɣ uqaɣan-u ǰüil-i surɣasuɣai kemeǰü bürün. ečige eke qoyar ber surɣaɣsan-dur. dörbel
ügei medeküi nigen bolbai. tere köbegün inu doloɣan ǰil boluɣsan-dur. biraman-u uqaɣan-u ǰüil-dür
mergen boluɣsan erdem-üd inu qamuɣ bügüdeger-tür sonostaɣsan-a. tere čaɣ-tur kabalik balɣasun-dakin uqaɣan-u
ǰüil-dür mergen boluɣsan qamuɣ biraman čiɣulǰu uqaɣan-u ǰüil-dür temečegsen-dür. biraman-u geigsen köbegün
maši yeke ülemǰi boluɣsan-dur. tedeger biraman ögüler-ün. ai köbegün a nasun činu eimü ǰalaɣu
bögetel-e. uqaɣan-u ǰüil-dür ene metü mergen boluɣsan ker buyu kemen asaɣbasu. köbegün ögüler-ün.
toɣoluɣsan burqan ber baɣši minu bui. boɣdas-un nom ber ibegegči minu bui. bursang quvaraɣ-ud ber
uduridduɣči minu bui. ɣurban erdenis-ün adistid kigsen-ü küčü-ber üile üres-tür ünemšigsen-ü tula.
sešig ügei erte šiltaɣan-u köröngge sačuɣsan-dur. ür-e ülü qomsadqu buyan-i kičiyegsen bui. nasun
minu ǰalaɣu bolbasu. uqaɣan-u ǰüil-dür mergen boluɣsan-u učir teimü bui.

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