Should a Mongolian choice read a glued father's initial as the family? (Ц.Сандаг-Очир gives given 'Ц.', family 'Сандаг-Очир') #1306

In Mongolia the official short form of a name is the initial of the father's name, a full stop and the given name, written with no space: Ц.Сандаг-Очир, У.Хүрэлсүх. Since #1304 (rules/T8), the glued word divides at its stop and reads as the spaced Ц. Сандаг-Очир does. That puts the father's initial in the given name's place under the default order:

Measured (2026-11-08, from #1235):

• The State Great Khural's API (member.short_name) writes all 126 current members this way.
• In 500 of the Khural's news articles, a single Cyrillic capital and a full stop come before a capitalized word with no space 4,689 times (595 distinct names). The spaced form occurs 8 times.
• Wikidata's mn labels for Mongolian citizens use the glued form too (С.Нарангэрэл, Д.Баттулга).

Relation: #1237 asks how a Mongolian choice reads the full name. Its first option, a pack with name_order = "family-first", already reads every row above right except Ts.Sandag-Ochir. This issue takes over #1237's question about the glued short form. It moved here from #1235, which #1304's division closed.

Questions

• Is a Mongolian pack's family-first order (Should a Mongolian choice read the father's name first? (Ухнаагийн Хүрэлсүх gives given 'Ухнаагийн', family 'Хүрэлсүх') #1237, option 1) enough for the short form, or does the initial need a reading of its own? The initial is the father's name, so Where does a father's name go when the name has no family name? (Abiy Ahmed Ali, Ухнаагийн Хүрэлсүх, Бекмырза Чолпонбай уулу) #1253 asks whether it belongs in family or in the patronymic view.
• Ts. is not divided. rules/H2 reads Ts as a title written short, and the default vocabulary does not list it as a digraph initial (decisions/period-joined-words). Should a Mongolian choice treat Ts., Ch. and Sh. as initials?
• Without a choice, should anything change? The positional reading is the documented default, and the spaced form reads the same.

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