Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Absolutely Riveting





Absolutely riveting, at least to a linguist - the work on Naxi language. For your consideration:

http://www.sinoglot.com/naxi/what-is-the-naxidongba-script/


     As an outed linguist I really find the work there unabashedly a triple crown because I live and work in China (and America); I love Tibetan language and culture; and the development of a purely pictographic language representation which took place let us say roughly 1000 years ago, and was studied / documented extensively 300+ years ago is, well, very satisfying.

If one had but more time. Much more...    O tempora... 

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