Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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OTHER IDEOGRAPHIC SCRIPTS
145 John Rylands Library of Manchester has quite a good collection, consist mostly of little books, oblong in shape, measuring about three inches in height by ten inches in width; the leaves are of thick, rough paper of uneven texture. Fig. 73, I shows the first page of a Mo-so manuscript. MAN GROUP
The languages classed under the name of "Man" are mainly spoken in China and Indo-China, partly also in Burma. The term "Man" is Chinese, and
"heart"
year
door"
"Family
Thinal
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Fig. 74-Ideograms of the Yao script means a "Southern Barbarian." It is applied by the Chinese to certain wild tribes, of which the Miao or Miao-tzu and Yao are the main representatives
These languages are imperfectly known; they are considered by some scholars as an independent group, by others, with more probability as belonging to the Tibeto-Burmese linguistic sub-famíly. According to some scholars, they are "aboriginal" languages of Eastern Asia.
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Fig. 75-51-Hia or Hsi-hsia syllabury The Miao-tzu are nowadays a mountainous people of south-western China, but at one time they occupied a portion of central China. They live also widely scattered in villages far up among the mountains, in northern Burmn and in Indo-China, to the north-west of Tongking and to the north of L105. They number about 2,000,000 in China and over 300,000 in Indo-China and are
