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A thousand syllables, standardised.
Also known as: Nuosu script, Classical Yi script
The script used for Nuosu Yi in Sichuan, standardised into a modern syllabary.
Writes Nuosu Yi with one character to a syllable.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Reduced from a much larger and regionally varied traditional repertoire to a fixed modern set by state standardisation in the twentieth century, which made it teachable at the cost of the variants.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Angular characters of straight strokes and hooks, one to each syllable, in a standardised set of over eight hundred.