中英雙語話中國民風民俗 第81期:少數民族的書面語言

Written Languages of Minority Peoples

少數民族的書面語言

There are twenty-one minority peoples that have their own written languages ,but only a small number of them are in active use. The Most heavily used are， Tibetan, Mongolian, Uighur, Kazak, Korean and Dai. Others used include Yi,Zhuang,Yao, Kyrgyz, and Uzbek. In the 1950s,the government helped more than twenty peoples to revise or invent their written languages. However,many of them have not shown special interest in using the scripts. On the contrary，many of them prefer to use the Chinese character.

有跡象表明，21個少數民族有自己的語言文字，但只有一小部分在積極使用。使用最頻繁的是：藏語，蒙古族語，維吾爾族語，哈薩克語，朝鮮語和戴語。其他還有使用彝族語，壯語，瑤族語，吉爾吉斯語，和烏茲別克語。在20世紀50年代，在政府幫助二十多個民族修改或創造自己的文字。然而，很多人並沒有顯示出在使用這些腳本的特別興趣。相反，許多人喜歡使用中國漢字。