Lexical features of water language

For example, some place names have a monosyllabic water name in addition to Chinese names. Such as k35 "Rongjiang", pjo3 1 "Hengfeng" and mui55 "Jiuqian".

② Apart from a few simple disyllabic words in the inherent words, there are two ways to form compound words: one is a compound word composed of two or three roots; The other is to add ingredients (such as so24 Chu, ti55 Di, la∶k43 Zi, tak43 Gong, ni55 Mu and tu33 Xiang) and roots, such as ti55“J? amp#9 1; T55 "head", or a derivative formed by adding elements after the root, such as VA: η 24VA: U24 "gaogao". Absorbed a large number of new loanwords, except a few half-translated and half-borrowed [such as tu33 (item)? amp#9 1; N33 (contention) and "contention" are mostly transliteration words, and ku55 is 5 South.

Before the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), water wizards had a symbol used for religious superstitious activities (divination, choosing a day, calling gods and watching geomantic omen), which was called le24sui33 "Water Book". There are pictographic characters, knowing characters, and using Chinese characters or changing the strokes of Chinese characters to write backwards and backwards, which is also called "reverse writing" Some words have many different styles, and many words are polysyllabic and have different meanings. According to statistics, there are about 300 words. This kind of symbol is unknown to the majority of Shui people, and it is not a writing of Shui people. For a long time, Chinese has been used in Shui nationality areas.