Lingua Mongolia

Uighur-Script Mongolian Resources
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Universities and Professional Institutions

• Harvard University
  Harvard Yenching Library - Details of the Library’s Mongolian Collection.
• International Admissions Office of Inner Mongolian University
  Courses for studying the Mongolian language in Höhhot, Inner Mongolia.
• Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit
  Research unit based at Cambridge University.
• The American Centre for Mongolian Studies
  Major institution coordinating academic projects related to Mongolia.
• University of Leeds
  Details of the MA in Mongolian studies at the University of Leeds, the only MA of its kind in the UK.

Independent Language Resources

• Christopher Kaplonski - Anthropology, Mongolia, and more...
  Contains a number of extremely useful digitised Mongolian books on history and Communist-era politics.
• Mongoluls
  A wide range of material on Mongolian religion, culture, history and language.
• Monumenta Altaica
  A site dedicated to Altaic linguistics - contains many digitised dictionaries and books dealing with the Mongolian language. Most of the available downloads and resources are in Russian. The site has recently been transferred to a new server making download speeds much faster.
• Voyagemongolie
  Online Khalkha Mongolian lessons via MSN for €25 per hour and a half.
• Sonsow uu?
  Online Khalkha comprehension drills including numerous sound files of native Mongolian speakers. Very well designed.

Bookdealers

• Abebooks.com AbeBooks is the world's largest online marketplace for books. Many of the most important books related to Mongolian studies (in European languages) can be found here.
• Shop Mongolia
  Books on Mongolian culture and language direct from Mongolia. This site is one of the places where you can now purchase Rita Kullmann's grammar (which was previously so hard to locate).

Miscellaneous Resources

• The UB Post
  The latest news from Mongolia.
• Omniglot
  A guide to the world's writing systems.
• Mongolia Travel Tours
  A new Mongolian travel company based in Ulan Bator. Works fine in IE6 but users may experience erratic screen behaviour in Firefox, Opera and IE7. On the whole, though, it’s good site.

Manchu Resources

• Gospel of Mark (in Manchu)
  A complete copy of Lipovtsov's translation of The Gospel of Mark in Manchu. Available to download as a pdf file.
• Tools for Written Manchu (manju bithe agūra)
  A very useful online Manchu-Chinese-English lexicon. Please note, however, that this lexicon fails to render correctly in Firefox but works fine in Internet Explorer.