Mosquito writing, a female-only, secret Chinese script, nüshu: these are all terms used to describe a written language used by the Yao minority in the Hunanese county of Jiangyong. Used exclusively amongst women since at least the 13th century, nüshu was developed as a necessity; as skills such as literacy were inaccessible to women, this melodic, monosyllabic style of writing, speaking, and singing was once their primary form of communication.
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