一 文字是人类最重要的辅助性交际工具。蒙古族最初没有文字,同其他民族一样,也经历过漫长的实物记事阶段。 然而,随着社会交际的扩大,这些实物记事方法已不适用,于是根据实际必要,开始逐渐借用了邻近部落或其他兄弟民族的文字。在宋人彭大雅、徐霆所著《黑鞑事略》中:“霆尚考之,鞑人本无字书,然今之所用,则有三种:行于鞑人本国者,则只有小木。长三四寸,刻之四角。且如差十马则刻十刻,大率只刻其数也。其俗淳而心专,故言语不差。其法说谎者死,故莫 A word is the most important auxiliary communication tool for human beings. Mongolian no initial text, as with other ethnic groups, also experienced a long period of physical recording. However, with the expansion of social communication, these methods of physical memorials have become ineffective. As a result, they began to gradually borrow the words of the neighboring tribes or other fraternal peoples as the need arises. In Song dynasty Peng Daya, Xu Ting’s “Black Tato”: "Ting still test, the Tartar no book, but now use, then there are three: line Tartars own country, then only wood. Three or four inches long, carved corners, and if the difference ten horses are engraved ten, the rate of only engraved its number. The vulgar Chun and heart, so the language is not bad.