纳西东巴文同形字研究述评

Review of Study of Homograph in Naxi Dongba Characters

同形字是早期文字系统中比较普遍的用字现象,云南省纳西族使用的东巴文就是一个典型代表。由于这一文字系统的特殊性,使得同形字的数量更多,使用情况更为复杂灵活。学者们已经注意到这一现象而且作了一些开拓性的研究,在此对前人的研究概况和所取得的成绩进行归纳总结,同时指出研究中尚且存在的不足,试图在此基础上探索同形字今后的研究方向。

Homograph is a common phenomenon for human primitive languages, such as the Dongba Characters of Naxi nation-ality in Yunnan province.Because of particularity of this language, the quantity of homograph words in this language is larger and the uses of the words are more complicated and flexible.Some scholars have already noticed this phenomenon and made some pio-neer studies on it.This article is to make a summary of the study to discuss further the trend of this subject.