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Sawndip -- Zhuang

Zhuang chracters, or sawndip, are logograms derived from Han characters and used by the Zhuang people of Guangxi, China to write the Zhuang languages for more than one thousand years. In Mandarin Chinese, these are called Gu Zhuangzi or Fangkuai Zhuangzi. Old Zhuang Script is restricted to those characters used before the founding of the Republic of China in 1911. Quoting wikipedia on the modern use: After the Chinese Revolution in 1949, even communist revolutionary propaganda was written using sawndip. In 1957 an official romanized Zhuang script was introduced. However there are major phonetic and lexical differences between Zhuang dialects, and the Latin-based system is based on the Wuming dialect; because of this and other reasons, there still are many Zhuang speakers that prefer to write Zhuang using sawndip. Even though it is not the official script at grassroots level various departments have continued to use Sawndip on occasions to get their message across. Coming into 21st century Sawndip understanding and usage of Sawndip remains significant, of those surveyed in two dialect areas just over one third said that they understood Sawndip, and about one in ten that they use Sawndip in most domains these rates are approximately twice those for the romanized script with only one sixth saying they understood it and only one in twenty saying they used in in most domains.

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