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Classical Yi – which is an ideographic script like the Chinese characters, but with a very different origin – has not yet been encoded in Unicode, but a proposal to encode 88,613 Classical Yi characters was made in 2007 (including many variants for specific regional dialects or historical evolutions. They are based on an extended set of ...
According to the Guizhou Ethnic Gazetteer (2002), [2] Yi autonyms include Nasu 哪苏, [3] Tusu 兔苏, [4] Lagou 腊勾, [5] Guo 果, [6] and so forth.. Most of Yi people of the Luquan area do not have the autonym Luoluo and Nasu (transliterated into Chinese as 纳苏) means "black", hence the Black Yi (黑彝 Hei Yi), [7] though Black Yi is an aristocratic caste distinction among the Yi ...
The Yi script was originally logosyllabic like Chinese and dates to at least the 13th century, but seems to be completely independent of any other known script. Until the early 20th century, usage of this script was primarily the domain of bimo priests for transmitting ritual texts from generation to generation.
Yindi 阴底, Bijie County 毕节县, Guizhou; The Yi have been mentioned since the Tang dynasty, and were said to have come from the north. The Yi are also noted for their belief in the Zitong (子童) Bodhisattva (菩萨). [2] Unlike most Gelao dialects, the Yi dialect uses a Loloish-derived numeral system (Zhang 1993:424). [2]
The construction of the road connected the areas of Yun, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan, and Guangxi provinces, integrated the domestic post roads into the national post road network, communicated the four provinces around Guizhou, and opened up the main traffic artery. It is an unprecedented initiative in the Yi family of Shuixi and even the whole ...
Yi Syllables is a Unicode block containing the 1,165 characters (1,164 phonemic syllables plus 1 syllable iteration mark) of the Liangshan Standard Yi script for writing the Nuosu (or Northern Yi, Sichuan Yi) language.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wiktionary; ... Proposal for encoding Yi script on BMP of ISO/IEC 10646, 1994-01-01: X3L2/94-098:
Mu'ege (Nasu: m̍ 33 ɣʊ 31 ɡɯ 55; Chinese: 慕俄格) was a Nasu Yi chiefdom in modern Guizhou that existed from 300 to 1698. Since 1279, Mu'ege was conquered by the Yuan dynasty and became Chiefdom of Shuixi (Chinese: 水西土司; pinyin: Shǔixī Tǔsī) under the Chinese tusi system.