Mongolian (court)

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Mongolian (court) was the formal written and administrative language used in the courts and chancelleries of the Mongol Empire and its successor states.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Classical Mongolian 1
Middle Mongolian 1
Mongolian 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative language
historical language variety
written language
associatedWith Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
Ögedei Khan
developedFrom Middle Mongol
linked to: Mongolian
domain diplomatic treaties
imperial governance
military orders
taxation records
function lingua franca of Mongol imperial administration
influenced later written Mongolian
languageFamily Mongolic languages
region Central Asia under Chagatai rule
China under the Yuan dynasty
Inner Asia
linked to: Central Asia

Persia under the Ilkhanate
linked to: Mongol Ilkhanate

Rus' lands under the Golden Horde
role vehicle for promulgating Yassa and other Mongol laws
scriptDirection vertical
scriptOrigin Old Uyghur script
linked to: Old Uyghur alphabet
standardizedIn imperial chancery of the Mongol Empire
status formal written standard of the Mongol Empire
timePeriod 13th century
14th century
early 15th century
usedAlongside Arabic
Chinese
Persian
linked to: Persian language

Turkic languages
usedBy Mongol bureaucracy
Mongol imperial court
imperial secretariat
usedFor chancery documents
court administration
diplomatic correspondence
imperial decrees
legal documents
usedIn Chagatai Khanate
Golden Horde
Ilkhanate
linked to: Mongol Ilkhanate

Mongol Empire
Mongol successor states
Yuan dynasty
writingSystem Classical Mongolian script
Uyghur-Mongolian script
linked to: Old Uyghur alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arghun languageUsed Mongolian (court)
Proto-Mongolic language hasDescendant Classical Mongolian
linked to: Mongolian (court)
Buryat language closelyRelatedTo Mongolian language
linked to: Mongolian (court)
Chengzong languageUsedInCourt Mongolian
linked to: Mongolian (court)
The Secret History of the Mongols language Middle Mongolian
linked to: Mongolian (court)