6th International Symposium Oriental Studies

37 The 6 th International Symposium on Oriental Ancient Documents Studies Jiejue Yihong Several Questions on Reading Ancient Yi Language Script Documents The Yi is the seventh nationality in China that has a lot of ancient script documents, but today we found several questions when reading them. First, some documents in ancient Yi script are incomplete. Second, some script marks and sentences were obscure. Third, some ancient words were difficult to understand. Fourth, most of ancient Yi document were write in some dialects and people can’t understand each other in different dialects. Fifth, the people who could read ancient Yi script document died and we can’t find new successors. This thesis is aimed mainly to talk about how to solve these problems and help the readers to get more ancient Yi document materials and let the Yi ancient language and culture spread effectively. Key words: ancient Yi documents, Chinese nationalities, the Yi script.