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The script behind a national emblem.
Also known as: Soyombo alphabet
The script created in the seventeenth century for Mongolian, Tibetan and Sanskrit, and the source of Mongolia's national emblem.
Writes Mongolian, Tibetan and Sanskrit in syllable units under a shared headstroke.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Its opening character became the Soyombo emblem on the Mongolian flag, so a script that never came into general use supplied a nation's central symbol.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Letters built beneath a common headstroke into syllable units, written left to right, with a distinctive opening character.
The national emblem is the script's opening character.