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Pictographs still being written.
Also known as: Naxi pictographs
The script used by Dongba ritual specialists of the Naxi people in Yunnan.
Records Naxi ritual texts in pictographs read by trained specialists.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Frequently described as the last pictographic script in use; it does not write the language fully, functioning as a prompt for a text the reader already knows rather than a complete record of it.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Coloured pictographic figures of people, animals and objects arranged in ruled panels across a page.