''Geba'' is a
syllabic script for 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, ...
. It is called ''¹Ggo¹baw'' in Naxi, adapted as ''Geba'', 哥巴, in Chinese. Some glyphs resemble the
Yi script, and some appear to be adaptations of
Chinese characters. ''Geba'' is used only to transcribe
mantras, and there are few texts, though it is sometimes used to annotate
''dongba'' pictographs.
Geba's phonetics can vary depending on who is using it. Symbols do not have fixed phonetic values, and they may have the same phonetic values as well.
See also
*
Naxi script
External links
*Dr. Richard S. Cook
Naxi Pictographic and Syllabographic Scripts: Research notes toward a Unicode encoding of Naxi
Syllabary writing systems
Naxi language
Writing systems derived from the Chinese
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