Developing practical orthographies for the Iu Mien (Yao), 1932-1986: a case study

• Main Author: Purnell, Herbert C.
• Other Authors: William Carey International University
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178925
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

On the fringe of that field known as applied linguistics, there is a rather small area called "orthography." It is so small, in fact, that it has been overlooked in most descriptions of the field (e.g:, Kaplan, 1980:58). Nevertheless, there are people working there. Many of them are lingui...