Social:Naxi script
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Short description: Writing system used to write naxi
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| Type | pictographic and syllabic
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| Languages | Naxi |
Time period | 1000 CE ? to present |
The Naxi language of southwestern China may be written in the syllabic geba script. There is also a Naxi tradition of pictographic symbols called dongba; this may sometimes be glossed with geba for clarification, since a dongba text may be intelligible only to its author.
A Latin alphabet was developed for Naxi in the 20th century.
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External links
- Dr. Richard S. Cook, Naxi Pictographic and Syllabographic Scripts: Research notes toward a Unicode encoding of Naxi
- Naxi Manuscript Collection at the Library of Congress
- Naxi scripts at Omniglot
- World Digital Library presentation of NZD185: Romance and Love-Related Ceremonies. Library of Congress. Primary source 19th and 20th century manuscripts from the Naxi people, Yunnan Province, China; only pictographic writing system still in use anywhere in the world.
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