Yi syllable characters

Monosyllabic ideographic language used by Yi people in China. Physically, it is very close to Chinese characters. In fact, it is not transformed from Chinese characters, but may be created by imitating Chinese characters. For example, Yi language has pictographs and reference characters. (Photo 1) Like a "head", like rice (gas) in a bowl, the dots in the word represent gas. There are also hieroglyphics with prominent parts (face) and nose shape. There is also a Chinese word, (hatch), which means that birds hatch young birds on nests with eggs. There are many ancient Yi literature, mainly manuscripts, but few engravings. Tai Shang gan pian is an ancient woodcut translation with 22,900 words, which is the largest number of woodcut texts in Yi language. In the past, scholars at home and abroad believed that the inscriptions on stone carvings were first seen in the Ming Dynasty, such as "Cliff Carving" in Luquan County, Chuxiong Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, which was carved in the 12th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1533). Today, the inscriptions on the Yi and Han languages of the Anshi Tusi in Dafang County, Guizhou Province were engraved in the year of Jiajing Bingwu (1546). In recent years, a bronze bell of twenty-one years of Ming Chenghua (1485) was found in Dafang County, Guizhou Province (Figure 2). Yi and Chinese characters are cast on the clock face, which is more than 60 years earlier than the stone carvings on it. This is the earliest extant document in Yi language. The stone bridge of Shuixi Dadu River in Dafang County was built in the 20th year of Wanli of Ming Dynasty (1592), and the bridge is engraved with inscriptions in both Yi and Han languages (see color map). The Yi language records the history of Tusi Andai in Shuixi, with the word 1922. It is the largest stone carving in Yi language, and it is also a precious material for studying the social history and customs of Yi people. Judging from the development law of characters, the number of Yi languages is small, so a large number of Yi classics are borrowed to express their meanings. There are six dialects in Yi language, which vary greatly from place to place, and the loanwords vary from place to place, which is one of the reasons why Yi language classics are difficult to understand. In order to better serve the Yi language in various dialect areas, the Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan Province formulated the standardization scheme of Sichuan Yi language with Xide sound as the standard pronunciation and Shengzha dialect as the basic dialect, * * * identified 8 19 standardized Yi characters, which were popularized and used in Sichuan Yi areas from 1975, and designed the Yi Phonetic Scheme for Latin letters to facilitate phonetic learning.