The 800th amiversary Of the Recognltion of Mongol Script as the State Script by Chinggis Khaan is marked on May 2, 2004. Starting this year the date is to be marked as a national script day. The old Mongolian script, the only vertical script in the world was one of the unique contributions made by the Mongolian nation to world civilization. The restoration of the old script has been supported by the international community.
It was registered as an intellectual property right internationally in 1991 and the code of Mongolian letters was approved in 2002 by the Geneva-based International Standardisation Organisation. In 1995 Parliament endorsed the national program on the traditional Mongolian script and decided to teach the script in secondary schools from the third grade up. Teachers and experts from the Mongolian State University are now engaged in the design of a computer program for old Mongolian and Latin scripts that will be financed by the state budget.
