The Introduction and Development of the Zhuang Writing System
The Introduction and Development of the Zhuang Writing System
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壮文文字系统的介绍与发展
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2004
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Quanxi Huang
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Xulian Li;Quanxi Huang
壮族主要生活在广西壮族自治区和云南省文山壮族苗族自治州。广东、贵州、海南、湖南等省也有一些与世隔绝的壮族社区。广西有壮族聚居县52个，占9个县总人口的90%，占39个县总人口的50%。根据1990年全国人口普查(中国，1994a，第3页)，壮族总人口为15,555,820人，目前估计约为1,700万人(2000年人口普查的统计数据尚未正式获得)，是中华人民共和国中国(中华人民共和国)最大的少数民族。壮族的自留词因地而异。它们是Bouxcuengh、Bouxyaex、Bouxnoengz、Bouxdoj、Bouxmbanj、Bouxraeuz和Bouxrungh，总数超过20(见中国，1994b，第838页)。壮族是这个起源于中国南部的土生土长的民族的正式名称。在中国的历史记载中，这个土著群体的起源可以追溯到春秋和战国时期(公元前722-221年)。壮语是大多数汉语语言学家认为的汉藏语系泰语的一员，分为南北两种方言，以两条河流(右江和榕江)为界(见魏秦，1980年，第78-96页；张军，1990年)。北方壮语人口占壮族人口的68%，南方壮语人口占壮语人口的32%。北部壮语有桂北、柳江、红水河、永北、右江、贵边、丘北、连山7个亚方言，南方壮语有5个亚方言，即永南、左江、德靖、盐光、文马。从语音上看，壮语最显著的特点之一是南方方言有一套北方方言所没有的送气声母。两种方言中的任何一种亚方言都可以相互理解，但说这两种方言的人除非改用汉语，否则无法相互理解。在日常生活中，壮语是主要的交流手段，因为壮族人对壮语有着深厚的情感依恋，而汉语是唯一的语言
The Zhuang people live mostly in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Wenshan Zhuang-Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. There are also some isolated Zhuang communities in Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, and Hunan provinces. In Guangxi, there are 52 counties populated by the Zhuang people, who make up 90% of the total population in nine counties and 50% of that in 39 counties. According to the 1990 national census (China, 1994a, p. 3), the total population of the Zhuang people was 15,555,820, and it is now estimated to be roughly seventeen million (statistics of the 2000 census not officially available yet), the largest ethnic minority group in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The autonyms of the Zhuang vary from place to place. They are Bouxcuengh, Bouxyaex, Bouxnoengz, Bouxdoj, Bouxmbanj, Bouxraeuz, and Bouxrungh, with the number totalling over twenty (see China, 1994b, pp. 838). The Zhuang is official name for this native ethnic group originated in southern China. The origin of this native group can be traced, in historical records in Chinese, to the Spring-Autumn and Warring States periods (722–221 BC). The Zhuang language, a member of the Tai languages of the Sino-Tibetan family according to most Chinese linguists, is divided into Southern and Northern dialects with two rivers (the Youjiang and the Yongjiang) constituting the boundary (see Wei & Qin, 1980, pp. 78–96; J. Zhang, 1990). The population of Northern Zhuang speakers is 68% of the Zhuang population, while that of Southern Zhuang speakers is 32%. There are seven subdialects in the Northern Zhuang dialect, i.e., Guibei, Liujiang, Hongshuihe, Yongbei, Youjiang, Guibian, Qiubei, and Lianshan, and five subdialects of the Southern Zhuang dialect, Yongnan, Zuojiang, Dejing, Yanguang, and Wenma. Phonologically, one of the most outstanding distinctive features of Zhuang dialects is that there is a set of aspirated initials in the Southern dialect which is absent in the Northern dialect. Subdialects within either dialect are mutually intelligible, but speakers of the two dialects can’t understand each other unless they switch to Chinese. In daily life, Zhuang is the main means of communication because of the Zhuangs’ deep emotional attachment to it, but Chinese is the only language that is