Mongolia has been through many alphabets over the centuries, including the Uighur adapted ‘Mongol Bicheg’, or ‘Mongolian Script’, which traces its roots back to Aramaic. The Cyrillic Mongolian alphabet is used today in Mongolia. Introduced by the Russian alphabet in the 1940s it replaced the old Mongolian Script, which had been used for centuries. Despite dropping the Mongolian script in ‘Outer’ Mongolia, Inner Mongolia has continued using Mongolian Script up to the present day.