Mongolians have the 1,000 year tradition of their unique culture of script. But the traditional Mongolian script was eliminated from public use during destoying some pieces of Mongolian heritage, religion and culture due to a social ideological polarization after the people's revolution, and Cyrillic alphabet came into use.
Over 90 years have passed since that time. Nowadays, Mongolia is attempting to revive the Mongolian traditional script after the democratic revolution. Moreover, the country is taking various measures for having all people to know the script in accordance with a decree of the President on making the traditional script the official script of state.
One of the events for promoting the President's decree is the National Day for Traditional Script which has been celebrated since 2003. During this year's event held on first week of May, various measures took place on the Chingis Khaan square such as the 9th national contest for top reader of Mongolian script, an exhibition named "Heritage of Mongolian script" and E-exhibition of rare books and scripts. A contest for Mongolian calligraphy, an discussion and meeting themed "Let's expand use of Mongolian script" were held as well.
Child talk: I enjoy reading and writing Mongolian script. Unfortunately, there are very few sources in Mongolian traditional script to read. I can only read my textbooks and the "Khumuun Bichig" newspaper which is published every week. Some 200 children attended the contest for fast reading. There are many children gathered here apart of them. It is better to publish literature books in Mongolian script because we are really persevering in our learning of Mongolian script.
In conjunction with registering the Mongolian calligraphy in the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding in 2013, the Mongolian State Language Council, the Mongolian National Library and the "Khumuun Bichig" newspaper urged all Mongolians to learn Mongolian script and to share their achievements in studying the cultural heritage which is written in Mongolian script.