Vagindra script

Tseveen Jamsrano^[1] as a means to cultural unification of the Buryats, naming it "Vagindra" for the Sanskrit version of his name.^[2][3] He based it primarily on the Classical Mongol and Todo script,^[4] expressing the hope that it would also help Buryats to read materials in the old script.^[5] Approximately ten books and pamphlets were published in the script until 1910, using a hybrid dialect primarily based on stern Buryat, but it was not used after that; there was discussion in 1917 of reviving it for use in native schools, but Classical Mongol was thought more likely to foster Mongol unity.^[6] Dorzhiev himself apparently lost interest in the project, and neither mentions it nor uses it in his autobiography.^[7][8] It was opposed by Mikhail Bogdanov, who advocated rapid assimilation through Russian,^[7] and it has been suggested that the hybrid language used presented problems for readers,^[8] although evidence suggests otherwise.^[7] Probably most importantly, the Tsarist government perceived Mongolian unification, and hence the Vagindra script, as a political threat and exiled some of its proponents.^[2][7]

Cyrillic Щ).^[3][12][13] He also added a special letter to mark, Х (h) sound of the Buryat dialect. The alphabet can therefore also be represented as having 36 letters including 8 vowels.^[9] Unlike Classical Mongol, the letter forms are invariant regardless of position in the word,^[9] being based on the medial forms in Classical Mongol, with the exception of a, which is based on the Uighur script and has a reduced form in medial and final position.^[5][11]