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Yi
nuosu bburma or Yi script
Script type
Syllabary in modern form;
Logographic in archaic variations
Time period
Since at least 15th century (earliest attestation) to present, syllabic version established in 1974
Direction
Left-to-right
Languages
various Yi languages
Related scripts
Parent systems
Oracle bone script
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
Yi
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Yiii(460), Yi
Unicode
Unicode alias
Yi
Unicode range
U+A000–U+A48F Yi Syllables,
U+A490–U+A4CF Yi Radicals
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The Yi scripts (Yi: ꆈꌠꁱꂷnuosu bburma[nɔ̄sβ̩bβ̠̩mā]; Chinese: 彝文; pinyin: Yí wén) are two scripts used to write the Yi languages; Classical Yi (an ideogram script), and the later Yi syllabary. The script is historically known in Chinese as Cuan Wen (Chinese: 爨文; pinyin: Cuàn wén) or Wei Shu (simplified Chinese: 韪书; traditional Chinese: 韙書; pinyin: Wéi shū) and various other names (夷字、倮語、倮倮文、畢摩文), among them "tadpole writing" (蝌蚪文).[1]
This is to be distinguished from romanized Yi (彝文羅馬拼音 Yíwén Luómǎ pīnyīn) which was a system (or systems) invented by missionaries and intermittently used afterwards by some government institutions (and still used outside the Sichuan province for non-Nuosu Yi languages, but adapted from standard the Han Pinyin system and used to romanize another syllary based on a subset of simplified Han ideograms).[2][3] There was also the alphasyllabary (or abugida) devised by Sam Pollard, the Pollard script for the Miao language spoken in the Yunnan province, which he adapted for the Nasu language as well.[4] Present day traditional Yi writing can be sub-divided into five main varieties (Huáng Jiànmíng 1993); Nuosu (the prestige form of the Yi language centred on the Liangshan area), Nasu (including the Wusa), Nisu (Southern Yi), Sani (撒尼) and Azhe (阿哲).[5][6]
^Benoît Vermander (2007), L'enclos à moutons: un village nuosu au sud-ouest de la Chine, p. 8. "Si les Nuosu vivent sur le territoire chinois, s'ils sont citoyens chinois et gouvernés de fait par le Parti-État chinois, l'univers culturel dans lequel [...] Par ailleurs, un système de transcription formé sur l'alphabet latin a été également mis au point [...]"
^Annual report of the American Bible Society American Bible Society 1949, Volume 133, p 248. "In the Nasu New Testament the so-called "Pollard" Script is used. Its alphabet was invented by the late Mr. Pollard, a British missionary, who worked in Yunnan and Kweichow Provinces."
^Halina Wasilewska in ed. Nathan Hill Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV 2012 Page 449 "... the writing as the basis and which corresponds to the classification of the Yi languages, present day traditional Yi writing can be sub-divided into five main varieties (Huáng Jiànmíng 1993), i.e. the Nuosu, Nasu, Nisu, Sani and Azhe varieties."
^黄建明 Huáng Jiànmíng 彝族古籍文献概要 (1993). "Yizu guji wenxian gaiyao" [Outline of classical literature of Yi nationality]. Yunnan minzu chubanshe.
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