Dongba Hieroglyph of Naxi ethnic group in Yunnan Province
The Naxi ethnic minority has a population of 277,800, most of whom live in concentrated communities in the Lijiang Naxi Autonomous County in Yunnan Province.
The Naxi language belongs to the Chinese-Tibetan language family. More than 1,000 years ago, the Naxi people had already created pictographic characters called the "Dongba" script and a syllabic writing known as the "Geba" script.
With these scripts they recorded a lot of beautiful folklore, legends, poems and religious classics. However, they were difficult to master, and in 1957 the government helped the Naxi design an alphabetic script. Over the past few hundred years, as the Naxi people have come into closer contact with the people in other parts of China politically, economically and culturally, the oral and written Chinese has become an important means of communication in Naxi society.
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Dongba Hieroglyph of Naxi ethnic group[Photo/Files]
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Dongba Hieroglyph of Naxi ethnic group[Photo/Files]
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Dongba Hieroglyph of Naxi ethnic group[Photo/Files]