Digitization Aids in Translation of Naxi Manuscripts

摘要

One of the last widely-used pictographic languages on Earth, the language of the Naxi, a minority tribe in southwest China, is today all but lost. No Western researchers, and only a few Chinese scholars and older tribe members are able to read or speak the language. A project to digitize Harvard-Yenching Library's Naxi manuscripts hopes to change that, by sharing the digital images with scholars in China who will translate them.