Re: Yi script

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, John Cowan wrote:
>
> >
> > Very unusually for the environment, the characters were not derived
> > from Chinese characters.  There were about 8000-10,000 of them.
> >
>
> Well, I've often found it curious that so many of the people around
> Han China's borders made character scripts of their own, without
> borrowing much more than the form of brush-strokes - Tangut, Jurchen,
> and a few more I can remember just now.
And don't forget the "women's script" -- which many
say looks like stings of mutant mosquitos.

> Oh, and the character script I
> devised when I had just started learning Chinese. Can't even remember
> the name now...
>
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