Research on Buxing Language

Author: Gao Yongqi
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: China is a unified multi-ethnic and multi-linguistic socialist country. The Communist Party of China and the Chinese government adhere to policies of ethnic equality and linguistic equality, and have always attached great importance to the research and investigation of minority languages. Starting in the 1950s, the state organized significant human, material, and financial resources to conduct extensive and in-depth research on minority languages, achieving remarkable results and discovering many new languages. Since the 1980s, the implementation of China's reform and opening-up policies and the adherence to a pragmatic and realistic ideological line have promoted the new prosperity and development of ethnic language and literature, as well as provided new perspectives and opportunities for research in this field. During this period, ethnic language researchers ventured into border regions, mountainous areas, and coastal islands, discovering a series of lesser-known languages. These languages have small populations and are often overlooked, but they hold high scientific research value. Particularly, some languages with dwindling speakers urgently require timely investigation to preserve these valuable linguistic materials. Starting in 1992, with the support of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the National Social Sciences Planning Institutions, systematic, in-depth, and comprehensive surveys were conducted on these languages, yielding a series of research findings. It was then decided to publish these works in the form of the "Studies on Newly Discovered Languages of China" series. This book is one of the volumes in the series.