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This article is from the Mongolia FAQ, by Oliver Corff with numerous contributions by others.

3.8.3.6. Mongolian Writing: Tibetan

In the last centuries, monks at the Gandan monastery in Ulaanbaatar
used Tibetan letters to write Mongolian texts, thus continuing
Phagsba's and Zanabazar's tradition with simplified means: they did
not create an extra alphabet which was based on Tibetan principles,
they directly used the Tibetan letters to spell out Mongolian words.

Documents surviving contain several Tibetan-Mongolian dictionaries of
religous terms.

 

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