The

Naxi language Naxi (Naqxi ), also known as ''Nakhi, Nasi, Lomi, Moso, Mo-su'', is a Sino-Tibetan language or group of languages spoken by some 310,000 people, most of whom live in or around Lijiang City Yulong Naxi Autonomous County of the province of Yunnan, ...

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

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was developed for Naxi in the 20th century.

External links

*Dr. Richard S. Cook
Naxi Pictographic and Syllabographic Scripts: Research notes toward a Unicode encoding of Naxi
at the

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Naxi scripts at Omniglot
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''NZD185: Romance and Love-Related Ceremonies''.

. 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. Writing systems Naxi language {{writingsystem-stub