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== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
According to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongba_symbols Wikipedia], {{quotation|The Dongba, Tomba or Tompa or Mo-so symbols are a system of pictographic glyphs used by the ²dto¹mba (Bon priests) of the Naxi people in southern China. In the Naxi language it is called ²ss ³dgyu 'wood records' or ²lv ³dgyu 'stone records'. "They were developed in approximately the seventh century." ([https://www.wdl.org/en/item/3025/#ddc=4&page=2 World Digital library]) The glyphs may be used as rebuses for abstract words which do not have glyphs. Dongba is largely a mnemonic system, and cannot by itself represent the Naxi language; different authors may use the same glyphs with different meanings, and it may be supplemented with the geba syllabary for clarification. | According to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongba_symbols Wikipedia], {{quotation|The Dongba, Tomba or Tompa or Mo-so symbols are a system of pictographic glyphs used by the ²dto¹mba (Bon priests) of the Naxi people in southern China. In the Naxi language it is called ²ss ³dgyu 'wood records' or ²lv ³dgyu 'stone records'. "They were developed in approximately the seventh century." ([https://www.wdl.org/en/item/3025/#ddc=4&page=2 World Digital library]) The glyphs may be used as rebuses for abstract words which do not have glyphs. Dongba is largely a mnemonic system, and cannot by itself represent the Naxi language; different authors may use the same glyphs with different meanings, and it may be supplemented with the geba syllabary for clarification.}} | ||
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|+ align=bottom| ''Facing pages of a Naxi manuscript, displaying both pictographic ''dongba'' and smaller syllabic ''geba.'' (Wikipedia) | |||
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== Links == | == Links == |
Revision as of 10:37, 8 March 2021
Introduction
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Links
General
Example documents
- Annals of Creation, World Digital library
Fonts
References
- Poupard, Duncan (2019) Revitalising Naxi dongba as a ‘pictographic’ vernacular script, Journal of Chinese Writing Systems, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2513850218814405