The Naxi Dongba script (a.k.a. Tomba or dto-mba) was reputedly invented by King Moubao Azong in the 13th century. It is used exclusively by the Dongba (shamans/priests) as an aid to the recitation of ritual texts during religious ceremonies and shamanistic rituals.

Geba is a syllabic script for the Naxi language. It is called ¹Ggo¹baw in Naxi, adapted as Geba, 哥巴, in Chinese. Some glyphs resemble the Yi script, and some appear to be adaptations of Chinese characters. Geba is used only to transcribe mantras, and there are few texts, though it is sometimes used to annotate dongba pictographs. Geba's ...

The Naxi language of southwestern China may be written in the syllabic geba script. There is also a Naxi tradition of pictographic symbols called dongba ; this may sometimes be glossed with geba for clarification, since a dongba text may be intelligible only to its author.

Dec 18, 2018 · The second endangered Naxi script, the Geba syllabary, may be the only endangered writing system primarily used to transcribe or annotate another endangered writing system. It might even be called an endangered rubric.

According to the Naxi legends recorded in the manuscripts, phonetic Geba characters first came into existence but proved difficult to mark down. The invention of Dongba symbols was later inspired by portraying common objects like stones and wood.

The Naxi Dongba script is a logographic (customarily called pictographic) script used primarily by the Dongba (Chinese dongba 东巴, Naxi to 33 mba 21) priests of the Naxi nationality, who live in and around the city of Lijiang in Yunnan province, China.

Despite all this, the script is often labelled “pictographic” for convenience, and possibly also because the Naxi have another method of writing which is not based on pictographs, but instead on a syllabic alphabet, known as the Geba script.

The software supports the input of both the Naxi pictographic script and the phonetic Geba script. The pictographs are inputted via typing English/Chinese or Naxi pinyin, then selecting your desired character.

Geba is a syllabic script for the Naxi language. It is called ¹Ggo¹baw in Naxi, adapted as Geba, 哥巴, in Chinese. Some glyphs resemble the Yi script, and some appear to be adaptations of Chinese characters. Geba is used only to transcribe mantras, and there are few texts, though it is sometimes used to annotate dongba pictographs. Geba's ...

There is another Naxi script, phonetic in nature, that is known as gə 33 ba 21, the Geba script. Fang Guoyu notes that ‘ba 21 ‘ means ‘call out’, and ‘ge 33 ‘ means ‘onset’, and as a whole the word can be taken to mean ‘pronounce the word by looking at characters’.