Re: Betreft: Re: 'Women's Only' Language Found Among Chinese
From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, December 1, 1999, 0:30 |
kljensen@image.dk writes:
>Alas! I don't have a scanner. But if you have the patience, I could try
>and
>get it scanned somehow. With any luck (and if your interested) I could
>scan a
>lot more than just the Nushu script. The encyclopedia has numerous gems.
>Several little known scripts from Asia are featured: from Indonesia
>(Javanese/Balinese, Battak, Buginese/Maccassarese, Redjang), from the
>Philippines (Mangyan, Tagalog, etc.), from the Himalayas (dbu-med,
>Lepcha,
>Limbu), from central Asia (Sogdian, Uighur, Mongolian, etc.), from China
>(dehong, Hsi-hsia, Manchu, Naxi-Tomba, Naxi-Geba, Chinese musical
>notation,
>Nuzhen), from mainland SEAsia (Hmong, Miao, Cham), and several little
>known
>scripts from the subcontinent like Maldivian. There are also little known
>scripts from Europe; Albanian, Kalmyk, Georgian, Armenian (Europe?), etc.
>There are also little known scripts from Africa. OK... I'm getting
>carried
>away now ;-)
>
>-kristian- 8)
Interesting. If you do manage to get it scanned (your school's computer
labs, hint hint :)) would you be so kind as to send the images my way,
please? :)