玛丽玛莎文字源与结构考

A Research on the Origin and Structure of Malimasha Characters

玛丽玛莎文是一种仅在云南省维西县塔城乡百余刻纳西族居民中使用的民族文字。这种文字的字源或造字依据是可以考释的。通过考释可得出以下一些结论 :它主要是一种纳西文字的变种而非不少学者认为的纳西文字的分支 ;少数玛丽玛莎文是当地纳西人自造的文字 ,主要是象形字和指事字 ,而未发现形声字 ;极少数文字来自汉字和藏文。

Malimasha is a kind of ancient minority characters merely used by about 100 people in Tacheng Town, Weixi County, Yunnan Province. According to its motivation, its origin and formation can be elucidated. Malimasha is not a branch generally acknowledged by some scholars, but rather a variable of Naxi writing. Only a few Malimasha characters were created by the local Naxi people, which mainly belong to pictographic or self-explanatory characters, and no pictophonetic characters have been found. Moreover, just a very few characters came from Chinese or Tibetan characters. Such an elucidation may have a reference value to the issue of loanwords in the study of character spread.