Work on both spoken and written ethnic minority languages, which began in 1980s, has made big headway, note officials from the State Ethic Affairs Commission.

So far, China has made coded character set, keyboard, type matrix and other national standards for the Mongol script, Tibetan language, Uygur writing, Kazak writing, Kirgiz writing, Korean writing, Yi writing and Dai writing. In the latest edition of international standard multi-language coding, the coded character set of Mongol script, Tibetan language, Uygur writing, Kazak writing, Kirgiz writing, Yi writing and Dai writing were formally accepted. Much ethnic language and writing software can be used in Windows system. And the electronic publication system, office automatio (OA) system, and all forms of databases come to the fore in succession. The website and web page of ethnic language and writing are preliminary established. And there also are many good achievements in ethnic character and voice recognition, machine translation and so on.

By People's Daily Online