Mongolian – Language on the Move

Children in traditional costume at annual Mongolian Festival (Nadaam) in Sydney (Image credit: What’s On)

Multilingual families Next Gen Literacies

How to maintain Mongolian in Australia?

Child at annual Mongolian Festival (Naadam) in Sydney (Image credit: What's On) Maintaining their heritage language is paramount for migrants internationally as language is not just a communication tool. It…

Undarmaa MunkhbayarDecember 11, 2023

Language politics Next Gen Literacies

Minority languages on social media

On this year’s International Mother Language Day, the UN is encouraging us to reflect on the role of technology in multilingual learning. Here, we are looking at the role of…

Gegentuul BaioudFebruary 28, 2022

Language in education

Will education reform wipe out Mongolian language and culture?

A herder guards the Mongolian script (Image credit: Ayin) As the danger of life-threatening Covid-19 has subsided, Mongols in Inner Mongolia, a region of northern China, have faced a new…

Gegentuul BaioudAugust 30, 2020

Covid-19

Fighting COVID-19 with folklore

Jin Gang performing a fiddle story about the heroism of health workers Nothing seems further from the fight against COVID-19 than traditional folklore. However, an ancient Mongolian art form, the…

Gegentuul BaioudFebruary 27, 2020

Language and globalization

Is English stealing the home of Mongolian?

The website of Hohhot Baita International Airport provides information in Chinese and English but not in Mongolian Update, Sept 16, 2020: A Mongolian translation of this blog post is now…

Gegentuul BaioudApril 18, 2018

Language and globalization

Fighting for ‘pure’ Mongolian

Image of dictionary burning circulating on social media On New Year’s Eve, when many people around the world were excited about firework shows, a group of Mongols in remote Inner…

Gegentuul BaioudApril 10, 2017

Multilingual histories

Cultural brokering

Rashid al-Din Monument in Soltaniyeh, Iran (Source: Wikipedia) Recently, I signed a contract for a revised second edition of my 2011 book Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction to be published…

Ingrid PillerNovember 25, 2015

How to maintain Mongolian in Australia?

Fighting COVID-19 with folklore

Fighting for ‘pure’ Mongolian

Cultural brokering

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