Written Languages of Minority Peoples

少数民族的书面语言

There are twenty-one minority peoples that have their own written languages ,but only a small number of them are in active use. The most heavily used are， Tibetan, Mongolian, Uighur, Kazak, Korean and Dai. Others used include Yi,Zhuang,Yao, Kyrgyz, and Uzbek. In the 1950s,the government helped more than twenty peoples to revise or invent their written languages. However,many of them have not shown special interest in using the scripts¹. On the contrary，many of them prefer to use the Chinese character.

有迹象表明，21个少数民族有自己的语言文字，但只有一小部分在积极使用。使用最频繁的是：藏语，蒙古族语，维吾尔族语，哈萨克语，朝鲜语和戴语。其他还有使用彝族语，壮语，瑶族语，吉尔吉斯语，和乌兹别克语。在20世纪50年代，在政府帮助二十多个民族修改或创造自己的文字。然而，很多人并没有显示出在使用这些脚本的特别兴趣。相反，许多人喜欢使用中国汉字。