东干文能为汉字拼音化提供借鉴吗?——兼议“文字进化论”与“汉字落后论”

Can Dungan Writing Provide Reference for the Latinization of Chinese Character?--A Tentative Refutation against“A Revolutionary Theory of Writing Systems”

东干文的成功创制与使用,重新激起了学界对汉字拼音化的热情与兴趣,有些学者认为东干文可以为汉字拼音化提供借鉴。本文回溯了汉字拼音化的百年探索历程,并结合近年来汉字认知加工研究及汉语与汉字关系等视角对汉字拼音化进行了学理反思。通过对东干文构词的分析可以看出,东干文无法成功破解汉字拼音化书写时简单音节结构和普遍存在的“同音异义”这一结构性难题,而其源自综合语中后缀叠加的书写方式不符合汉语作为孤立语的特点,本质上仍属于一种“注音符号”,所以很难承担作为汉字拼音化“借鉴”的重任。论文结合东干文创制的个案讨论了在国内流播甚广的“文字进化论”与“汉字落后论”。

The successful creation and use of Dungan writing rekindles the enthusiasm and interest of academic circles in Chinese Pingyin character.Dungan Writing is considered to be a reference for the Chinese Pingyin character.This paper retraces the century-long exploration process of Chinese Pingyin character,and makes a theoretical reflection on Chinese Pingyin character from the perspectives of Chinese character cognitive processing research and the relationship between Chinese and Chinese characters in recent years.Through the analysis of the word formation of Dungan writing,it can be seen that Dungan writing cannot successfully solve the structural problem of simple syllable structure and the prevalence of“homonym”in wrinting Chinese Pingyin character.What's more,its writing style,which is derived from the superposition of suffixes in synthetic language,is not in line with the characteristics of Chinese as an isolated language.In essence,it still belongs to a kind of“phonetic notation”,so it is difficult to undertake the improtant task of being a“reference”for the Chinese Pingyin character.Based on the case of Dungan writing,the paper also tentatively discuss the flaw of evolution theory of writing systems,and the belief that Chinese character is a obsolescent.