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sombhatt: Nüshu (literally “women’s writing” in Chinese) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. Up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) women were forbidden access to formal education, and so Nüshu was developed in secrecy as a means to communicate. Since its discovery in 1982, Nüshu remains to be the only gender-specific writing system in the world.Read more here. wow. wikipedia page about it is pretty interesting too. yang huanyi was the last person to be proficient in the language, and she died in hunan province in 2004 at the age of 98. here are a few pictures of her, during and after the poor woman’s hair started graying and falling out.

sombhatt:

Nüshu (literally “women’s writing” in Chinese) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. Up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) women were forbidden access to formal education, and so Nüshu was developed in secrecy as a means to communicate. Since its discovery in 1982, Nüshu remains to be the only gender-specific writing system in the world.

Read more here.

wow. wikipedia page about it is pretty interesting too. yang huanyi was the last person to be proficient in the language, and she died in hunan province in 2004 at the age of 98. here are a few pictures of her, during and after the poor woman’s hair started graying and falling out.

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    By contrast there is plenty of gender-specific language. Super cool!