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Article: Alphabet inventors.
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- Calliope
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Since the invention of writing thousands of years ago, everyone who has heard about it has wanted to do it! Historical accounts tell us that even the renowned and feared Mongol ruler Genghis Khan (d. 1227) thought it was a great idea. When an Uyghur captive introduced him to alphabetic writing, the illiterate Genghis was so impressed that he ordered the man to teach the Mongol people--including his own children--to read and write.
Genghis' grandson, the Mongolian emperor Khubilai Khan, commissioned the Tibetan monk hPags pa in 1269 to create a script that could be used for all the languages of his empire. The hPags pa script influenced a later ruler, King Sejong ...
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