Tuvan font

[Ya Sam]

Just a little correction, on the blue table there are cyrillic letters with 
corresponding Latin and I think Chinese characters.

But here you can see the original Tuvan characters as well, on the green 
background, and they strikingly resemble Latin ones.

http://www.scs-intl.com/trader/frameload.htm?/trader/tuvanfont.htm

What is significant about Tuva is that until the first introduction of the 
Latinised alphabet it was a land of oral dissemination of culture.

"The Turks developed a writing system and extensive literature, yet in Tuva, 
which sits to the west of Khakassia and to the north of Mongolia, oral 
traditions took precedent. Shamans told stories of people turning to stone, 
which perhaps helped explain ancient stone figures erected much earlier. In 
the 19th and 20th centuries, when colonizers began to till Tuvan soil for 
the first time, this was considered taboo, as the earth was sacred. However, 
one of the most important ways a person could not only connect with nature 
but also simply survive in an often harsh landscape was through music. To 
this day, traditional Tuvan music leaves open space so that nature might be 
able to come in and add its own elements to the conversation."

http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/country/content.country/tuva_828

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