AtDDtA1: Seal

[Ya Sam]

I don't think that the words on the seal are in Tuvan script. The script is 
some variant of Tibetan orthography corresponding to the Tibetan Chamber of 
Commerce name in the upper left corner.

http://www.tibetancc.org/

As for the Tuvan script:

"The original Tuvan orthography was devised in the early 1930s by a Tuvan 
Buddhist monk, Lopsan-Chimit, who was later repressed in Stalinist purges. 
It used mostly Latin-based letters with some special letters to reflect the 
sounds of Tuvan. A few books, including primers intended to teach adults to 
read, were printed using this writing system. Lopsan-Chimit's alphabet was 
supplanted by a Cyrillic-based one, in use to the present day, and he was 
effectively erased from the history books. In the post-Soviet era, Tuvan and 
other scholars have taken a renewed interest in the history of Tuvan 
letters, and in setting the historical record straight"

http://www.arikah.net/encyclopedia/Tuvan_language

Just look at the blue table with the Tuvan alphabet with I think Chinese 
explications. There are Latin and Cyrillic characters.

http://www.tarbagan.net/fotj/TuvanLang.htm

So the first Tuvan alphabet was Latin-based, the second was Cyrillic-based. 
And the one on the seal, well, it's Tibetan.

I've never actually seen this script before,
>only read about it.  I think it's probably the alphabet designed by
>Nicholas Poppe --- he's famous enough that everything he's done must be
>catalogued and archived and studied somewhere, hopefully that gives you
>enough to keep going on your quest.
>
>But the Himalayan backdrop seems a bit out of place with a Tuvan script
>--- do you think the coin and stamp were created for the book cover?
>
>regards, Kerry Yackoboski
>    for FoTuva.org"
>
>

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