东巴文记录语段向记录语词的发展趋势探析

On Developmental Trend of Dongba Script from Recording Fragment to Recording Words

文字是用来记录语言的书写符号。东巴经是用东巴文书写的文献材料,其中记录语言的情况较为复杂。有的情况不是简单并存的共时现象,而是东巴文记录语言历时演变的结果。东巴文按记录语段的完整度大致可分为两种情况:省略式和包蕴式。二者各有其特点。就发展趋势而言,省略式是逐渐补充出未得到记录的音节符号,而包蕴式则更为复杂。发展的根本原因是一字一音节的推动。

Script is writing symbols used to record language. Dongba scripture is a document written in Dongba script, and the recorded language in it is quite complicated. Some of them are not simple synchronically co- existent phenomena, but the result of diachronic language evolution recorded in Dongba script. Based on difference of completion of recorded fragments, Dongba script is roughly divided into omitted and connotative forms. The very two forms have their own features. So far as developmental trend is concerned, the omitted form is to gradually complement the unrecorded sytlable symbols, The real cause for such development is the drive of ＂one word but connotative form is much more complicated one syllable＂.