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A body of signs deliberately not public.
Also known as: Nsibidi secret signs, Initiate nsibidi
The property of the nsibidi system that a substantial part of its corpus was restricted to initiated members and is not publicly documented.
Records that a substantial part of the nsibidi corpus was restricted to initiated members of particular societies.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Means any published account of nsibidi is partial by construction, so a reader should not treat a list of nsibidi signs as the system.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Not a single drawn shape: a documented division between the nsibidi signs published in the literature and a body of signs restricted to initiates.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.