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This book, volume two of the study "A Myth Become Reality - History and Development of the Miao Written Language", contains historical descriptions and graphonomic analyses of the Miao writing systems devised in China after 1949 and a discussion about the mythologization of one of the missionary writing systems for Miao - the Pollard script. The first volume contains an introduction and parts I and II out of four parts. In the introduction the author discusses the notion ‘Miao’, the Miao dialects and presents their phonological systems. Part I deals with the Miao myth about a prehistoric writing system and part II is concerned with the efforts of various missionaries, mainly British and American, to devise writing systems for Miao. The present volume deals with the Miao writing systems devised within the language programs sponsored by the Chinese state, particularly in the 1950s and how these writing systems have subsequendy been propagated. There are substantial differences in the success of propagating Miao writing in different Miao groups and the reasons for this are to be sought both in the reinterpretation of the writing systems in accordance with the myth about the loss of wr

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Author

Joakim Enwall

Publisher

Institute of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9789171534231

Category

language learning

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, History

Updated

2026-03-25