UNESCO Intangible Heritage
The Ger as a Living Classroom
UNESCO recognises the craft of building the Mongol ger — and the customs lived inside it — as heritage worth protecting.
The Hearth
Preserving Mongolian Wisdom,
Word by Word
A collection of Mongolian proverbs and idioms, written down with their meanings and the family stories behind them.
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From the Steppe
Language & Script
Mongolian Script in Urgent Need of Safeguarding
The vertical Mongolian script was placed on UNESCO's Urgent Safeguarding List as the number of skilled writers fell.
Festivals
Naadam: Where Old Words Are Still Sung
Naadam's wrestling, horse racing and archery come with their own praise songs, titles and set phrases.
Our Story
About the Creator
Manduul is a Mongolian teenager living in Singapore. Translating for his grandmother and teaching his younger brother Mongolian, he kept meeting proverbs neither of them knew — sayings that existed only in one elder's memory. Ger Dotor began as a notebook of those phrases and grew into an archive open to every family.
“I want to create a resource that helps families like mine keep this heritage alive.”Learn More About the Project
Do you know a saying that isn't here yet?
It takes five minutes to add a proverb your family still uses. Every entry is reviewed before it joins the archive.
Contribute a ProverbRecorded with meaning
Every entry carries its literal translation, contextual meaning and cultural background — not just the phrase.
Kept by families
Contributions come from grandparents, parents and students who still use these sayings at home.
Reviewed before publishing
Each submission is checked by hand, so the archive stays trustworthy as it grows.