Do all the 56 ethnic groups in China have their own scripts?

Among the 56 ethnic groups, North Korea, Mongolia, Tibet, Uygur, Kazak, Kirgiz, Yi, Dai, Lahu, Jingpo, Xibe and Russia have their own scripts, and Chinese is used by three ethnic groups: Han, Hui and Man.

Among them, Mongolians use vertical phonetic symbols, and Mongolians living in Xinjiang also use phonetic symbols based on the common Mongolian language and suitable for the characteristics of Weilat dialect. Dai people in Yunnan use four Dai languages in different areas, namely Dai Nuo, Dai Na, Dai Zhan and Jinping Dai.

In addition, most Lisu people who believe in Christianity use capital Latin letters and their inverted forms to spell Lisu characters, and one or two areas in Weixi County use Lisu syllabic characters "Zhushu" created by local farmers. Some Christians in the northeast of Yunnan use a Miao script to put together symbols representing sound, rhythm and tone to form a square. A few Wa people who believe in Christianity use the Wa script in Latin alphabet.

Since the founding of New China, the state has helped some ethnic minorities to improve and create scripts, so as to promote the development of their culture and education. It has successively reformed the scripts of Dai, Yi, Jingpo and Lahu, and at the same time adopted Latin letters to help Zhuang, Buyi, Miao, Li, Naxi, Lisu, Hani and Lisu.

They are Mongolian, Tibetan, Uygur, Zhuang, Kazak, Xibe, Dai, Uzbek, Kirgiz, Tatar, Russian, Yi, Naxi, Miao Wen, Jingpo, Lisu, Lahu and Wa.

In addition to the words listed above, there are some words that have been used in history, but they are no longer used. These characters are 65,438+07 Turkic, Uygur, Chagatai, Khotan, Basiba, Xixia, Madong hieroglyphics, Dongba hieroglyphics, Shuishu and Manchu.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Minority Languages and Characters