Back Escriptura dongba Catalan Hieroglifo Dongba Esperanto Écriture dongba French Scrittura dongba Italian トンパ文字 Japanese 동파 문자 Korean Pismo dongba Polish Escrita dongba Portuguese Scrierea dongba Romanian Дунба Russian
| Dongba | |
|---|---|
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| Script type | Pictographic
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Time period | At least 30 C.E. to the present |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| Languages | Naxi language |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Nkdb (085), Naxi Dongba (na²¹ɕi³³ to³³ba²¹, Nakhi Tomba) |
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] The first artifacts with this script on them originate from approximately 30 AD.[2]
The glyphs may be used as rebuses for abstract words which do not have glyphs.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]
- ^ He, 292
- ^ Memory of the World: The Treasures That Record our History from 1700 BC to the Present Day (1st ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. 2012. p. 36. ISBN 978-92-3-104237-9.