Dongba symbols
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Introduction
According to 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'.[1] "They were developed in approximately the seventh century."[2] 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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- 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