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Tag Archives: oracle bones

A comparison of various ‘pictographs’

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Duncan
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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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Suggested reading:
Naxi Manuscript Collection Harvard University's digitised Naxi manuscripts
Annals of Wu Encounters with Wu dialects
国学数典 PDF books of a sinological nature
Early Tibet Research notes on Tibetology
Echoes of Manchu Blogging about the Manchu language
International Dunhuang Project The Silk Road online
The Tibetan and Himalayan Library One of the best resources for Tibetan on the web
The Tibetan Language Student Tibetan learning resources

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