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| Institute of Language and Literature of Mongolia | |
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| Name | Institute of Language and Literature of Mongolia |
| Native name | Монгол Улсын Хэлний Бодлогын Төв |
| Established | 1941 |
| Location | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |
| Type | Research institute |
| Parent | Mongolian Academy of Sciences |
Institute of Language and Literature of Mongolia is a national research institute focused on Mongolian linguistics, literature, lexicography, and cultural heritage, located in Ulaanbaatar. The institute operates within the framework of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and maintains ties with regional centers in Khövsgöl, Dornod, and Khovd, engaging with scholars linked to the National University of Mongolia, Mongolian State University of Education, and the State University of Arts and Culture. It contributes to national policy discussions involving the State Great Khural, the Ministry of Culture, and international bodies such as UNESCO.
The institute traces institutional roots to initiatives contemporaneous with the 1940s academic expansions associated with the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, and Soviet-era collaborations with institutions in Moscow, Leningrad, and Novosibirsk, while engaging with figures related to Choibalsan-era cultural planning. During the Cold War period the institute collaborated with the Institute of Oriental Studies, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and scholars connected to the International PEN. Post-1990 democratic transitions prompted restructuring linked to the State Great Khural, the Office of the President, the Ministry of Education and Science, and international funding from UNESCO, the Soros Foundation, and the British Council. In the 21st century the institute expanded programs in corpus linguistics, lexicography, and digital humanities, aligning with projects at Harvard University, Kyoto University, Seoul National University, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
The institute's mission emphasizes documentation of Mongolic languages, promotion of classical and modern literature, and provision of language policy advice to the State Great Khural, the Ministry of Culture, and the Ministry of Education and Science. Organizationally it is structured into departments reflecting traditional scholarship: Department of Mongolian Language, Department of Mongolian Literature, Department of Lexicography, Department of Folklore and Ethnography, and the Center for Corpus Research, which coordinate with the Mongolian Lexicographical Commission, the National Library of Mongolia, and the Museum of Mongolian Writing. Administrative oversight involves the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, the National Council on Cultural Heritage, and liaison with the National Centre for Academic Degrees and Quality Education.
Research outputs include monographs, critical editions, dictionaries, and annotated corpora produced in cooperation with presses such as Admon, Ulaanbaatar Publishing House, and foreign publishers connected to Oxford University Press, Brill, and Routledge. Key publication series involve historical-critical editions of works by Chinggisid-era figures, annotated anthologies of poetry related to Sükhbaatar-era cultural movements, and linguistic atlases informed by fieldwork in Bayan-Ölgii, Selenge, and Dornogovi coordinated with scholars from Cambridge University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and Humboldt University of Berlin. The institute issues peer-reviewed journals that have engaged contributions from editors affiliated with Columbia University, SOAS University of London, Australian National University, and Indiana University Bloomington.
Programs focus on standardizing orthography, grammar codification, and revitalization of dialects such as Buryat, Oirat, Khamnigan, and Khalkha through policy advisement to the Ministry of Culture and cooperation with UNESCO, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and the International Organization for Standardization. The institute's lexicographical projects interact with the Mongolian State Dictionary, corpus initiatives in partnership with the National University of Mongolia, and digital encoding efforts with Unicode Consortium specialists, while engaging scholars from Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Seoul National University on script reform and Cyrillic-Mongolian traditional script interoperability.
The institute provides postgraduate training and doctoral supervision in collaboration with the National University of Mongolia, Mongolian State University of Education, and international doctoral programs at the University of Oxford, the University of Tokyo, and Leiden University. It runs workshops and summer schools that invite visiting faculty from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Melbourne, Saint Petersburg State University, and Yonsei University, and hosts conferences linked to the Association for Linguistic Typology, the International Association for Mongol Studies, and the European Society for Central Asian Studies.
The institute maintains bilateral agreements and joint projects with the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the European Union’s Horizon programs, and UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage division. Collaborative endeavors include corpus-building with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, lexicography with the School of Oriental and African Studies, and ethnographic multimedia archives developed with the Smithsonian Institution, the British Library, and the Library of Congress. It participates in regional networks involving the Mongol Studies Group, the Inner Asian Forum, and the Central Eurasian Studies Society.
Prominent associated scholars and former directors include linguists, philologists, and literary historians who have engaged with international academia, including figures connected to the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, the National University of Mongolia, and research collaborations with scholars at Harvard University, Cambridge University, Moscow State University, and Kyoto University. Notable names in Mongolian studies that have intersected with the institute's work include specialists whose research interfaces with the fields represented by Nicholas Poppe, Igor de Rachewiltz, Bruno De Nicola, Christopher Atwood, Urgunge Onon, Rinchen, and Sergiusz Michal Grodzinski, as well as contemporary directors participating in forums with the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, and the Open Society Foundations.
Category:Linguistic research institutes Category:Mongolian literature Category:Cultural organizations in Mongolia