A comparison of various ‘pictographs’

There’s an interesting panel at the Lijiang Museum (formerly Dongba Culture Museum) that shows various Naxi characters in comparison with their oracle bone / Egyptian hieroglyph counterparts. Excuse the rubbish blurry cameraphone photo, which was also taken behind a pane of glass:

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You get the IPA for the Naxi, but that’s it.

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