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Nushu - Chinese Language of Women

Discover more about the Chinese women's language, Nushu, which survived for centuries as a way for women friends to write to and speak with other women. It is now preserved through the efforts of scholars.

Exhibition to feature a rare language

A Shanghai perspective on the 2004 public revelation of Nushu, the woman-only language spoken and written in a small locale within China.

Last inheritress of China's female-specific languages dies

News article from 2004 details the death of the last speaker of Nushu, and also includes some history of the women's language.

Nüshu, Women's Secret Script

From a Chinese site on life and culture, a feature on Nushu, including how it was discovered and how it was used.

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