The Hearth
Preserving Mongolian Wisdom,
Word by Word
A digital archive of the proverbs, idioms and expressions that are quietly disappearing from everyday Mongolian speech — recorded with their meaning, their context, and the voices that carried them.
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Proverbs travel from one voice to the next — this archive keeps them from stopping at the last one who remembers.
Recorded 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.
The steppe remembers what the city forgets — and the people remember for the steppe.
Manduul Batbaatar
Founder & Creator
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
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It takes five minutes to add a proverb your family still uses. Every entry is reviewed before it joins the archive.
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