Four secular Ruke Dongba notes generated during fieldwork: an innovative language documentation approach

This paper documents and analyzes several Dongba script notes collected during my interviews with the Ruke Dongba priests. It provides an overview of Ruke Dongba glyphs in processing daily vocabulary and the International Phonetic Alphabet. It compares these Dongba pictographs with the Geba script,...

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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1731682024-01-20T16:56:02Z Four secular Ruke Dongba notes generated during fieldwork: an innovative language documentation approach Xu, Duoduo School of Humanities Humanities::Linguistics Ruke Naxi Dongba Script This paper documents and analyzes several Dongba script notes collected during my interviews with the Ruke Dongba priests. It provides an overview of Ruke Dongba glyphs in processing daily vocabulary and the International Phonetic Alphabet. It compares these Dongba pictographs with the Geba script, the syllabic writing system of Naxi people, as well as the various types of scripts used by some other ethnic groups, which show a general tendency of Romanization in the generation of alphabetic writing systems and provides a pattern inherent in the historical evolution of writing. IPA symbols, a fundamental tool of field linguists, facilitate learners in grasping a language and nonalphabetic scripts. In addition to analyzing the Ruke Dongba pictographs attested in the secular manuscripts in the context of history of writing, this study contributes to the linguistic description of Ruke Dongba culture and the diversity of Dongba tradition. Published version 2024-01-16T02:24:44Z 2024-01-16T02:24:44Z 2023 Journal Article Xu, D. (2023). Four secular Ruke Dongba notes generated during fieldwork: an innovative language documentation approach. Languages, 8(3), 162-. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages8030162 2226-471X https://hdl.handle.net/10356/173168 10.3390/languages8030162 2-s2.0-85172208482 3 8 162 en Languages © 2023 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). application/pdf
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Ruke Naxi
Dongba Script
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Dongba Script
Xu, Duoduo
Four secular Ruke Dongba notes generated during fieldwork: an innovative language documentation approach
description This paper documents and analyzes several Dongba script notes collected during my interviews with the Ruke Dongba priests. It provides an overview of Ruke Dongba glyphs in processing daily vocabulary and the International Phonetic Alphabet. It compares these Dongba pictographs with the Geba script, the syllabic writing system of Naxi people, as well as the various types of scripts used by some other ethnic groups, which show a general tendency of Romanization in the generation of alphabetic writing systems and provides a pattern inherent in the historical evolution of writing. IPA symbols, a fundamental tool of field linguists, facilitate learners in grasping a language and nonalphabetic scripts. In addition to analyzing the Ruke Dongba pictographs attested in the secular manuscripts in the context of history of writing, this study contributes to the linguistic description of Ruke Dongba culture and the diversity of Dongba tradition.
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title Four secular Ruke Dongba notes generated during fieldwork: an innovative language documentation approach
title_short Four secular Ruke Dongba notes generated during fieldwork: an innovative language documentation approach
title_full Four secular Ruke Dongba notes generated during fieldwork: an innovative language documentation approach
title_fullStr Four secular Ruke Dongba notes generated during fieldwork: an innovative language documentation approach
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