 |  | | | Nu Shu | Saturday 20 April 2002 | | |
China is planning to spend a million dollars to save what's believed to be the world's only language used exclusively by women. It's only found in one tiny area of Hunan province and was used by secret sisterhoods for probably around a thousand years. Nu Shu, as the script, is called was preserved on fans and silks.
Now the government is planning to set up a museum and to compile a dictionary of characters to protect the language which is on the verge of extinction.
Dr Harriet Evans is an expert in women and gender in China from the University of Westminster. She tells Martha how it was first discovered.
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