2004.03.25
Nushu: Women’s Language
I learned about an interesting language today spoken only by women in the Yao ethinic group in China. They have thier own distinctive language and writing system. It looks quite interesting and the idea of a gender based language could be interesting for some of the earlier languages.
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4 Responses to “Nushu: Women’s Language”
- skooz says (January 1st, 1970 at 08:00:00 )
I meant to mention this last week, but several of the Native American cultures often have male and female dialects. Lakota Sioux for one. From what I understand, Kevin Costner spoke the female version in “dances with wolves” which was kind of their little joke on him. But for more easily found references to women/men languages you should check out the locals as several universities have great big Native American dialect studies divisions of their anthro departments including UNM and Arizona State.
- Larry the Linguist says (January 1st, 1970 at 08:00:00 )
Leave it to Dugh to want to study and mimick the language of women.
- dugh says (January 1st, 1970 at 08:00:00 )
hey, if you can understand the language of women then they can’t fool you any more, right?
- dugh says (January 1st, 1970 at 08:00:00 )
i’m also looking forward to…
mookee’s description of his secret 20 converting, which he’s mentioned he might put online. that would be an example of a guy’s secret language…
