16.3508, Media: Mail & Guardian Online: Nushu
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Subject: 16.3508, Media: Mail & Guardian Online: Nushu
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Date: 08-Dec-2005
From: Karen Chung < karchung at ntu.edu.tw >
Subject: Mail & Guardian Online: Nushu
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Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:05:24
From: Karen Chung < karchung at ntu.edu.tw >
Subject: Mail & Guardian Online: Nushu
Mail & Guardian online (South Africa)
07 December 2005
Mother tongue
Jon Watts
Nushu, the secret women's script of the Yao minority in China, was
widely declared extinct last year, when its most famous user, Yang Huangyi,
died aged 92. But obituaries for the world's only gender-specific language
appear to have been premature.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=258672&area=/insight/insight__body_language/
Karen Chung
http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/
http://lists.topica.com/lists/phonetics/
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Writing Systems
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