摘要
在目前所见到的苗文材料之前,古代苗族是否有过文字,一直是不解之谜。最近,笔者在湖南邵阳城步丹口镇进行田野调查时发现了100余处摩崖石刻。这些摩崖石刻上的文字与古文献资料、民间歌谣传说中的古苗文和明清城步苗族起义军曾广泛使用过的苗文字以及城步民间现仍在使用一些常用的苗文字极其相似。该石刻上的文字应该就是失传了两个半世纪的城步古苗文字。因此,"苗族只有语言没有文字"的说法有待商榷。
Whether there were any characters in the ancient Miao People is always a myth before we found Miao＇s characters at the moment.Lately,the author had discovered more than 100 stones with inscription in the field investigation into Dankou Town of Chengbu.The characters inscripted on these stones are very similar to the ancient Miao＇s characters in ancient documents and folk-balladry,to the Miao＇s character widely used during the insurrectionary army of Miao People in Ming and Qing Dynasty,to some folk Miao＇s characters recently used in common.The characters inscripted on stones belong to the ancient Miao people which lost for two and a half centuries.So the conception ＂there weren＇t characters but only spoken language＂ should be under discuss.
出处
《吉首大学学报（社会科学版）》
北大核心
2013年第1期120-123,共4页
Journal of Jishou University(Social Sciences)
基金
国家社会科学基金项目(11XTQ010)
关键词
古苗文
城步
石刻
ancient Miao＇s characters
Chengbu
stone inscription
