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Does the Naxi language and script have a future? A consideration of some possible measures and strategies for its promotion, protection and development
Does the Naxi language and script have a future? A consideration of some possible measures and strategies for its promotion, protection and development
Dr. Michael Prosser
Applied Linguistics Department, Valencia Polytechnic University
Monolingual minority language communities can undergo complete language shift from the minority language to the official nationwide language in a very short time. For example over [...]
Fundamental research on the texts of Naxi Dongba script – Extraction of a framework based on frequency of appearance of pictographs
Fundamental research on the texts of Naxi Dongba script – Extraction of a framework based on frequency of appearance of pictographs
Naomichi KUROSAWA（黑泽直道）日本国学院大学
The ritual texts used in the religion of the Naxi people are written in a distinct script known as “Dongba script”, which is both written in and read by Naxi priests, themselves known as [...]