Re: A China-Sumer connection

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:15:02 GMT

Lee Sau Dan wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>
> >> Wrong. One other tribe probably invented a logographic writing
> >> system independently: the Yi minority living in South-western
> >> China. Their system is very different from the Chinese one,
> >> with perhaps only one thing in common: they're both
> >> logographic.
>
> Peter> Yi writing is not logographic, it's syllabic, and it's a
> Peter> recent invention.
>
> How about the Naxi script?

It's not writing. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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