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"There is some internal evidence that the Chinese script may not have been originally designed for the Chinese language. Thus we cannot conclude that the Yi got the idea of writing from the Chinese. Indeed, some age estimates would make Yi the older of the two; it's also possible that they derive from a common source."
What is this evidence and where does the suggestion ("some estimates") come from that Yi script is the older of the two? Yi script according to this article has an attested history of 500 years, while the Chinese script has an attested history of more than 3000 years!
I suggest to delete the sentences quoted above. Babelfisch 02:04, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
This page could really use some images to show what the script looks like! -- Reuben 04:03, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
It would be great if someone could create a table of each character and its meaning/pronunciation. Also, is the term "Pinyin" correct here? Is it really pinyin, or should the section be changed to "romanization"? -- LakeHMM 06:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
In the article Yi script, my screen showed only "????? ?? ?? ? ? ? ?". What shall I do/install to read the Yi script? L joo 18:59, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
An ideosyncratic version of IPA is used on this article, characters like [ɿ] don't exist in standard IPA. What do they mean? Also, is [u̱] really supposed to be a lowered version of [u] (and thus, a bit similar to [ʊ])? Among them is also the pseudo-IPA character [ȵ], which I suppose should be [ɲ]. Someone knowledgable about Yi and IPA should replace them by standard characters. — N-true ( talk) 20:38, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Is it me or is this alphabet way more complicated than it should be? What was the design philosophy? I can barely find a pattern in it. Angry bee ( talk) 06:12, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
It's more like Japanese kana system in which each character stands for a syllable. There's no rule to generate each sign for the syllable (unlike amharic alphabet). Originally Yi script is more like Chinese scripts as hieroglyph, but in around 1950s the characters are re-used to make a syllabary system. 152.78.171.210 ( talk) 13:44, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Is Aki considered to be mythical by academic researchers?
First section, second paragraph, footnote 4: (ref)[https....pdf Miao abiguda table](/ref) Shouldn't this read "Miao abugida table" ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.145.170.161 ( talk) 15:02, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
ꉮꌪꉝꍆꊀꅽꌪꌉꍆꊀ 187.184.25.252 ( talk) 00:22, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Unless you're a sinologist you'd have no reason to know what that symbol is supposed to mean 84.97.60.191 ( talk) 22:42, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
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"There is some internal evidence that the Chinese script may not have been originally designed for the Chinese language. Thus we cannot conclude that the Yi got the idea of writing from the Chinese. Indeed, some age estimates would make Yi the older of the two; it's also possible that they derive from a common source."
What is this evidence and where does the suggestion ("some estimates") come from that Yi script is the older of the two? Yi script according to this article has an attested history of 500 years, while the Chinese script has an attested history of more than 3000 years!
I suggest to delete the sentences quoted above. Babelfisch 02:04, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
This page could really use some images to show what the script looks like! -- Reuben 04:03, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
It would be great if someone could create a table of each character and its meaning/pronunciation. Also, is the term "Pinyin" correct here? Is it really pinyin, or should the section be changed to "romanization"? -- LakeHMM 06:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
In the article Yi script, my screen showed only "????? ?? ?? ? ? ? ?". What shall I do/install to read the Yi script? L joo 18:59, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
An ideosyncratic version of IPA is used on this article, characters like [ɿ] don't exist in standard IPA. What do they mean? Also, is [u̱] really supposed to be a lowered version of [u] (and thus, a bit similar to [ʊ])? Among them is also the pseudo-IPA character [ȵ], which I suppose should be [ɲ]. Someone knowledgable about Yi and IPA should replace them by standard characters. — N-true ( talk) 20:38, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Is it me or is this alphabet way more complicated than it should be? What was the design philosophy? I can barely find a pattern in it. Angry bee ( talk) 06:12, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
It's more like Japanese kana system in which each character stands for a syllable. There's no rule to generate each sign for the syllable (unlike amharic alphabet). Originally Yi script is more like Chinese scripts as hieroglyph, but in around 1950s the characters are re-used to make a syllabary system. 152.78.171.210 ( talk) 13:44, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Is Aki considered to be mythical by academic researchers?
First section, second paragraph, footnote 4: (ref)[https....pdf Miao abiguda table](/ref) Shouldn't this read "Miao abugida table" ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.145.170.161 ( talk) 15:02, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
ꉮꌪꉝꍆꊀꅽꌪꌉꍆꊀ 187.184.25.252 ( talk) 00:22, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Unless you're a sinologist you'd have no reason to know what that symbol is supposed to mean 84.97.60.191 ( talk) 22:42, 20 March 2022 (UTC)