Galik alphabet

Galik
*Ali Gali*
Galik; Ali Gali
Script type	Alphabet
Creator	Ayuush Güüsh
Time period	16th century
Languages	Mongolian, Tibetan, Sanskrit
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Syriac alphabet Sogdian alphabet Mongolian script Galik; ; ; ; ; ;
Sister systems	Clear script; Vagindra script
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The Galik script (Template:Lang-mn, Ali-Gali üseg) is an extension to the traditional Mongolian script. It was created in 1587 by the translator and scholar Ayuush Güüsh (Template:Lang-mn), inspired by the third Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso. He added extra characters for transcribing Tibetan and Sanskrit terms when translating religious texts, and later also from Chinese. Some of those characters are still in use today for writing foreign names.^[1]

Some authors (particularly historic ones like Isaac Taylor in his The Alphabet: an account of the origin and development of letters, 1883) fail to distinguish between the Galik and standard Mongolian alphabets.

References

^ Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar (2008). Einführung in die Mongolischen Schriften (in German). Buske. ISBN 978-3-87548-500-4.

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[1] Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar (2008). Einführung in die Mongolischen Schriften (in German). Buske. ISBN 978-3-87548-500-4.

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