Menksoft ( Mongolian: ''Müngke Gal soft'', lit. "inextinguishible flame";

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: Měng Kē Lì, lit. "Mongol·Technology·Self-support") is an IT company in

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

, who developed Menksoft Mongolian IME, the most widely used

Mongolian language Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and both the most widely spoken and best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residen ...

input method editor (IME) in Inner Mongolia.

History

Menksoft was established in May 2002 by S. Soyolt (

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: Sū. Sūyǎlātú). In 2003, it was evaluated as a major software enterprise of Inner Mongolia and one of the 20 largest private enterprises in

Hohhot Hohhot,; abbreviated zh, c=呼市, p=Hūshì, labels=no formerly known as Kweisui, is the capital of Inner Mongolia in the north of the People's Republic of China, serving as the region's administrative, economic and cultural center.''The Ne ...

. In 2004, it gained the Gold Prize of INT'L Soft China. It is supported by the Chinese government.

Corporate leadership

Menksoft holds close ties with the

Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities ( ''Öbür mongγol-un ündüsüten-ü yeke surγaγuli'', 内蒙古民族大学, IMUN) is in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China, under the direct administration of the Chinese Government's Inner Mongoli ...

. The Mongolian website of Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities is tl.menksoft.com under the Menksoft webhost menksoft.com.

Input method series and their code

The Mongolian code used in Menksoft Mongolian IMEs has become the de facto international code of Mongolian: the largest competitor of Menksoft in Mongolian script input domain — Saiyin — wrote a "howto" for users to use Saiyin code and Menksoft code in parallel, and says "What would you do if you've already installed and registered Saiyin IME, but you want to contribute for newspaper office? They do only accept Menksoft code. Saiyin has already settled this problem for you" on a page of its website called " How to use Saiyin IME with Menksoft in parallel." Besides the integrated code converter in Menksoft Mongolian IME, there is a standalone version converter which can convert almost every Mongolian script code, except Unicode. ;Input method series The Menksoft IMEs are a collection of Input method editors (IMEs) for typing Mongolian-related scripts such as

Mongolian script The classical or traditional Mongolian script, also known as the , was the first writing system created specifically for the Mongolian language, and was the most widespread until the introduction of Cyrillic in 1946. It is traditionally writte ...

, Uyghurjin script, Manchu script, and

Xibe script The Sibe language (, also Sibo, Xibe) is a Tungusic language spoken by members of the Sibe minority of Xinjiang, in Northwest China. Classification Sibe is conventionally viewed as a separate language within the southern group of Tungusic lang ...

Menksoft Mongolian Input method series

Menksoft Mongolian IME is the only free and widely used input method editor of Menksoft. Supported scripts include Mongolian, Uyghurjin, Manchu, Xibe, etc. The Menksoft IMEs make use of

Private Use Areas In Unicode, a Private Use Area (PUA) is a range of code points that, by definition, will not be assigned characters by the Unicode Consortium. Three private use areas are defined: one in the Basic Multilingual Plane (), and one each in, and nearl ...

(PUA) of Unicode and the Chinese GB 18030 code that form the so-called " Menksoft Mongolian code" (

: ). With the influence of Chinese input methods built-in

whole sentence input Whole may refer to: Music * Whole note, or semibreve * Whole step, or major second * ''Whole'' (Jessa Anderson album) or the title song, 2014 * ''Whole'' (Soil album), 2013 * ''Whole'', an EP by Pedro the Lion, 1997 * "Whole", a song by Basement ...

pattern, the focus of Menksoft Mongolian IME is not placed on a Mongolian keyboard layout, but on phoneme pattern input methods, as they are more commonly used for Chinese language text. *For the standard Unicode keyboard layout of Menksoft, see Menksoft Mongolian Phoneme Input Methods. *For the word pattern IME of Menksoft, see Menk Mongolian Whole-Word Input method Unicode was late to provide adequate support for the Mongolian script, where the first and as of 2009 only functional implementation is shipped with Windows Vista. This resulted in some popularity for the Menksoft IMEs in

, where even the local government websites uses them. There is an English interface of Menksoft Mongolian IME, but Menksoft did not build an English installation program. People using operating systems without Chinese language support must use the Chinese installation programs (maybe mojibake) and set the language settings to English interface through the

language bar The Text Services Framework (TSF) is a COM framework and API in Windows XP and later Windows operating systems that supports advanced text input and text processing. The Language Bar is the core user interface for Text Services Framework. Over ...

after installation. Menksoft is incompatible with Macintosh operating systems.

Menk Mongolian Whole-Word Input method

Based on research, Menk Mongolian Whole-Word Input method (

: or ) is said to be the first word input pattern input method for (a concept including alphabet (linguistic definition),

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and

semi-syllabary A semi-syllabary is a writing system that behaves partly as an alphabet and partly as a syllabary. The main group of semi-syllabic writing are the Paleohispanic scripts of ancient Spain, a group of semi-syllabaries that transform redundant plosive ...

, excluding

syllabary In the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words. A symbol in a syllabary, called a syllabogram, typically represents an (optiona ...

) in the world.Menk Mongolian Whole-Word Input method
In this method, you can type fewer letters than Menksoft Mongolian IME. For example, "sainjiyaga" in Menksoft Mongolian IME becomes "saijyg"; "erdemtu" becomes "eedt"; the word "Mongol" can be input by typing "mc;gv". Unlike Menksoft Mongolian IME, the whole-word input method is not

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; it is a professional and educational edition. Supported scripts are Mongolian, clear, Manchu, and Xibe.

Menksoft Mongolian Phoneme Input Methods

Menksoft Mongolian Phoneme Input Methods () are keyboard layouts using ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000(E) standard

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(except for Uyghur style Mongolian script).Menksoft Mongolian "Yinma" Input method
/ref> Supported scripts are Mongolian, Uyghur-style Mongolian (

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, Mongolian written in

Old Uyghur alphabet The Old Uyghur alphabet was a Turkic script used for writing the Old Uyghur, a variety of Old Turkic spoken in Turpan and Gansu that is the ancestor of the modern Western Yugur language. The term "Old Uyghur" used for this alphabet is misleading ...

by Tatar-Tonga), Clear, Manchu, Xibe, and Mongolian Cyrillic Mongolian script.

Menksoft Khitan small script application system

Menksoft Kazak IME

Menksoft International Phonetic Input method

A related keyboard.Menksoft International Phonetic Input method
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Network

Menksoft Content Management System

MenkCMS''
Mongolian CMS System Technique StudyMenksoft Web Develop Department

Fonts

;Embedded fonts of Menksoft Mongolian IME * Menksoft Garqag * Menksoft Hara * Menksoft Hawang * Menksoft Qagan * Menksoft Scnin * Menksoft (Menksoft.tte) default EUDC font ("end-user-defined character"), the only font support not only Hudum Mongolian, but also Todo, Manchu, Sibe, Uyghurjin, Phags-pa, Soyombo, Horizontal Square, etc. Not selectable in font list. Menksoft Qagan is the standard font and looks similar to Menksoft.tte and Mongolian Baiti. Qagan (a.k.a. Chagan) means white in Mongolian. ;Standalone
Menksoft Qimed

Mengsoft Amglang

Word processing

;Mongolian WPS Office 2002 Cooperate with

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. Adopted by Inner Mongolia Academy of Social Science, but the interface is poor.

Menksoft Ethnical RedFlag Linux

There is a Menksoft Ethnical

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. There is also an Office system work in Chinese Linux (not the former Linux).内蒙古蒙科立软件有限责任公司——“和我国第一个基于LINUX汉文操作系统的少数民族多文字办公套件”
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References

External links

Menksoft
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English Introduction
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A website run by Menksoft
and
Mongolian WPS Office 2002 Professional Edition
(193MB)
Unofficial Tiny Edition
(45.5MB)
Possibly Menk Mongolian Whole-Word IMEGuide PDF
(in traditional Mongolian) *
Menksoft Mongolian IME
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Menksoft Mongolian IME
(The English advertisement is the download link) * {{in lang, zh, mn}
Mongolian site by Menksoft
Software companies of China Companies based in Hohhot Companies established in 2002