To Study The Origin And Development Of The Written Language Of Yi People

Chinese ancient writing resources are abundant, Many ancient ethnic groups used written languages in their history. The written language of Yi People is one of the most ancient one among Chinese ancient written languages. Even though the written language of Yi people is antique, its origin has never been precisely confirmed and has been highly concerned by experts in fields of philology and Yi studies. Since 19th Century, there have been an increasing number of studies to explore the origin and development of the Yi language. Many experts have proposed different kinds of theories about the origin of Yi language. However, to some extent, there is certain uncertainty, ambiguity and impertinency for the theories. Such uncertainty is mainly focused on the heated-debated issues of the timing of Yi language's creation and whether or not it has any connection with Chinese language. Some experts believed that Yi language was created in Ming Dynasty, but some believe it was created in Han Dynasty, or in Pre-qin, or in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, or in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties in the meantime of the occurrence of oracle bone inscriptions. This dissertation explains and explores the origin of Yi language under the basis of previous studies,gains new cognition.The main content includes:the history and culture of Yi People and its language, Yi language's archaian literature survey, Yi language's origin, nature and structure, Yi language's development and regulations. This dissertation critically analyzes the origin, development, characteristic etc. of Yi language, embeddedly studies the timing, nature and structure of Yi language, Particularly elucidates the theory based on the numerous materials, systemic theory, scientific methods. And discussed the using and regulation of Yi language, bring forward some suitable and actual advices.This dissertation's significance is that it explains the origin, nature and structure of Yi language and clears the development pathway of Yi language, which provides valuable materials about Yi language to ethnology, Yi study, and common philology. This dissertation also provides theoretical and practical reference for regulation, reformation, development, and for constituting the policy of ethical language.This dissertation has the following points of innovation: For the first time combining the fieldwork with the literature survey method, thoroughly studied the origin and development of Yi language, initially solved the origin, development and whether or not it has any connection with Chinese language of Yi language, educed the conclusions such as the origin of Yi language in GuYi language, the age of normal Yi language can be pushed to the Han Dynasty, Sichuan Yi language is the oldest one, etc. Relying on the full and accurate materials in different historical stage of Yi language, to analyse the synchronic structure and diachronic evolution of Yi characters; to analyse the developmental status and compare the characters longitudinally of the Yi language in different historical stage, summarized the characteristics, analysed the differences, explained the reasons。Put forward that based on the Sichuan Yi language, regulating unifiedly Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi the four provinces Yi language, and put forward the measures and schemes.