Writing dongba
The writing dongba is a writing used by the people Naxi of culture Dongba, it is undoubtedly the only pictographic writing mainly used nowadays; certain characters are however used there as syllabic characters.
The culture dongba is located in particular in the city-prefecture of Lijiang, province of the Yunnan and in the county of Muli, province of the Sichuan, in China.
In the prefecture of Lijiang in particular, the panels are generally written in dongba, Chinese and sometimes in English. Penmanship dongba is always practiced, as well as the artisanal manufacture of paper and printing works by Estampe S. the manual writing is practiced with the Calame Bambou. There also exists of many mural representations of this writing, in low relief or painting.
One can find in the bookstores of the town of Lijiang of the dictionaries dongba - Chinese/English.
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