From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Sat Dec 27 2003 - 11:33:12 EST
Christopher John Fynn scripsit:
> OTOH in their sphere Han Chinese at least seem keen to stress cultural
> unity as much as possible - hence they see the 'Phags-pa script as
> a Chinese invention - though others would say it was invented by a
> Tibetan for Mongolian and is ultimately based on an Indic script.
I do not read Chinese, but as I understand it, the claim is that the
script was invented by a Zhongguoren (retrospectively speaking) though
not by a Hanren, which is certainly true if you accept (as the Chinese
government insists) that Tibet is part of Zhongguo.
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