Some questions concerning the Chinese transcription of the Secret History of Mongols

Abstract

The absence of diacritics in the original text of the Secret History of Mongols written in Uigur-Mongolian script caused mistakes in reading and thus also in transforming into the Chinese characters. This lays behind numerous mistakes in the traslations of the Secret History into various languages.

Keywords

• Some
• questions
• concerning
• Chinese
• transcription
• Secret
• History
• Mongols