Origin from 1269
The 'Phags-pa script is a writing system designed in the thirteenth century by the Tibetan monk Drogon Chogyal Phagpa for Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty, as one unified script for the many languages of the empire. It grew out of the Tibetan alphabet and has forty one basic letters, written vertically from top to bottom, with the letters of a syllable joined into blocks. It was used for Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan, Uyghur and Sanskrit, among other languages, but it never won wide acceptance, was official only for about a century and faded after the Mongol led dynasty fell. It survived on seals, on Tibetan banknotes and on monastery doors, and it is valued by historical linguists as a record of how medieval Chinese and Mongolian sounded.
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Source 'Phags-pa script (Wikipedia)
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Source ScriptSource (SIL): Phags-pa (SIL writingsystems.info)
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Source 'Phags-pa script (Wikipedia)LeadQuote, Lead
the founder of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) in China
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1. 'Phags-pa script (Wikipedia)
Lead, end of use
it fell out of use with the advent of the Ming dynasty
History
during the Yuan dynasty (c. 1269), Kublai Khan asked the Tibetan monk
Letters, basic letters
The following 41 are the basic
Unicode
was added to the Unicode Standard in July 2006 with the release of version 5.0
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the founder of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) in China
Script Of: Mongolian, Lead, languages
The script was used to write and transcribe varieties of Chinese, the Tibetic languages, Mongolian, the Uyghur language, Sanskrit, probably Persian, and other neighboring languages during the Yuan era.
Script Of: Tibetan, Lead, languages (Tibetic)
The script was used to write and transcribe varieties of Chinese, the Tibetic languages, Mongolian, the Uyghur language, Sanskrit, probably Persian, and other neighboring languages during the Yuan era.
Script Of: Sanskrit, Lead, languages (Sanskrit)
The script was used to write and transcribe varieties of Chinese, the Tibetic languages, Mongolian, the Uyghur language, Sanskrit, probably Persian, and other neighboring languages during the Yuan era.
View the Source2. ScriptSource (SIL): Phags-pa (SIL writingsystems.info)
ScriptSource (SIL)Script descriptionQuote, Script description
There are forty-one letters used for writing Phags-pa.
3. Unicode Consortium: ISO 15924 Code Lists, Table 1
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Phags_Pa 5.0 2006-10-10
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