壮文与壮文信息处理

Zhuang Language and Its Information Processing

壮族的文字分为古壮文和现代壮文。古壮文主要出现在古籍中,民间也仍在使用,是活体字。1990年起广西研制了古壮文造字/编辑/排版工具、释义字典和借音壮字数据库。现代壮文创制于1955年,是壮族扫盲/教学、国家党政重要文件、人民币、广西公共场所使用的文字。目前已有编辑工具、英汉壮释义词典及辅助翻译软件。今后应研究壮文标准,研究开发全文检索和古壮—现代壮—汉—英互译系统,以推动壮文教育、出版、交流与遗产保护。

Languages of the Zhuang nationality can be divided into ancient Zhuang language and modern Zhuang language.The ancient Zhuang language mainly exists in ancient books as well as among the daily use by the folk.For this active branch of Zhuang language,the character-defining/editing/typesetting tools,the dictionaries and the pronunciation-borrowing ancient Zhuangese database have been developed in Guangxi aince 1990.Modern Zhuang language were created in 1955,which are formally used in education（illiteracy-elimination）,,in the offical documents of the the government,over the currency（RMB）,and in the public places in Guangxi.For this branch,the editing tools,English-Chinese-Zhuang dictionaries and CAT software have been developed.The further research and development of Zhuang information processing lie in the full text retrieval and mutual translation between ancient Zhuang,modern Zhuangese,Chinese and English,so as to facilitate the education,the publication,the communications and the heritage protection of Zhuang language.