Why did Mongolia adopt the cyrillic script?

There was an overall push from the Soviet Union to discourage traditional Mongol culture and create an image of Russian/Soviet culture being superior. read more

A.: I suppose the religion was the main cause. In the past, the traditional religion played a big role in Mongolia, and the old Mongolian literary traditions were based on the religion. A big part of population were monks. read more

The Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet (Mongolian: Монгол Кирилл үсэг, Mongol Kirill üseg or Кирилл цагаан толгой, Kirill tsagaan tolgoi) is the writing system used for the standard dialect of the Mongolian language in the modern state of Mongolia. read more

As for speed of writing, it can be written extremely fast, possibly faster than the Cyrillic alphabet. And while I’ve compared it unfavourably with Cyrillic, it is a fully functional script for representing Mongolian, as is proved by its continued use in Inner Mongolia. read more