本书由中国社会科学院民族学与人类学研究所中国少数民族语言研究中心专家学者集体编写。少数民族语言文字研究自新中国成立以来，从无到有，业已从传统的描写语言学、历史比较语言学、民族古文字文献研究发展为包括社会语言学、文化语言学、计算语言学、实验语音学等众多分支学科在内的综合性学科，研究领域广阔，理论方法多样，具有鲜明的中国特色。全书从13个研究领域，全面梳理了新中国成立以来民族语言文字研究的历史发展和学科成就。

This book is compiled by experts and scholars from the Chinese Minority Language Research Center of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the study of minority languages has developed from scratch from traditional descriptive linguistics, historical comparative linguistics, and ethnopaleographic literature research to a comprehensive discipline including sociolinguistics, cultural linguistics, computational linguistics, experimental phonetics and many other sub-disciplines. From 13 research fields, the book comprehensively sorts out the historical development and disciplinary achievements of ethnic language research since the founding of New China.（AI翻译）