TY - JOUR AU - Balk, Michael AU - Janhunen, Juha PY - 2014/05/09 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A New Approach to the Romanization of Written Mongol JF - Studia Orientalia Electronica JA - StOrE VL - 87 IS - 0 SE - DO - UR - https://journal.fi/store/article/view/45143 SP - 17-28 AB - This paper has grown from a joint project which the two authors initiated<br />in late 1997 on the Romanization of the Mongol script. The authors first<br />met earlier the same year at the Seventh International Congress of<br />Mongolists in Ulan Bator, where they presented individual papers on<br />related topics (Balk 1997, Janhunen 1997). Since it turned out that the two<br />papers reflected an almost identical understanding of the fundamental<br />issues of the problem, the authors decided to continue the work together<br />in order to create a unified system of Romanization for Written Mongol<br />with a potential for wider use in both scholarly and practical contexts.<br />The final results of this work, as well as the detailed discussions which<br />preceded them, will appear as separate publications, in which the history<br />of the question will also be given due consideration. The purpose of the<br />present paper is to give an introduction to the principal considerations and<br />motivations underlying the new approach to the Romanization of Written<br />Mongol. At the same time, the actual solutions proposed by the authors<br />will also be illustrated. ER -