Lexicography

Dictionaries are repositories of lexical data. They preserve all kinds of linguistic and cultural information about a language. They can help minority people learn the national language and improve their skills in their own language. So far our work has resulted in a Zhuang dictionary and work on Yao and Bai dictionaries is in progress. In 2000 EAG ran a lexicography workshop in Nanning, and in 2001 another in Beijing.

Published work:

[1] BLACKBURN, Perry L.ed. To Make a Needle: A List of Common Chinese Characters.Dallas: SIL, 2003. (in Chinese)

[2] LUO Liming, chief ed. Zhuang Chinese English Dictionary. Beijing: The Ethnic   Publishing House, 2005.

[3] Ma Linying, Dennis Elton Walters & Susan Gary Walters (eds.) 2007. Nuosu Yi - Chinese -English Glossary. Beijing: The Ethnic Publishing House.

[4] PINSON, Thomas M. 1998. Naxi-Chinese-English Glossary. Dallas: SIL.

[5] SNYDER, Wil, and YU Jiongbiao. 1995. Libo Buyi-Chinese-English Glossary. Language Data. Asian-Pacific Series no. 18.Dallas: SIL.