{"id":353,"date":"2011-03-23T21:30:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T04:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2011-04-02T22:21:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T05:21:37","slug":"naxi-geba-1200-ad-s-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/naxi-geba-1200-ad-s-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Naxi Geba &#8212; 1200 AD? S. China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_355\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/naxiGeba.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-355\" class=\"size-full wp-image-355\" title=\"naxiGeba\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/naxiGeba.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naxi Geba character<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like its sibling (parent?) script, <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/naxi-dongba-600ad-s-china\/\">Naxi Dongba<\/a>, Naxi Geba is highly idiosyncratic and used mostly for religious writings.\u00a0 Unlike Naxi Dongba, Naxi Geba is a syllabary, but different people used different symbols for the same syllable. This makes it less than ideal as an interpersonal communications medium.<\/p>\n<p>This raises another aspect of the question: &#8220;What is a writing system?&#8221;\u00a0 Does a writing system need to be shared to be a writing system?\u00a0 If I create a language and only make notes to myself, is it a writing system?\u00a0 What if I then forget what it meant &#8212; is it still a writing system?\u00a0 What if I make marks on paper that might be meaningful to someone somewhere in the universe?\u00a0 I do not know the answer to that, and indeed that question might not have a universal answer.\u00a0 Its answer might be as idiosyncratic as the Naxi Geba syllabary.<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/unicode.org\/~rscook\/Naxi\/\">Naxi Pictographic and Syllabographic Scripts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/naxi.htm#geba\">Omniglot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinoglot.com\/naxi\/what-is-the-naxidongba-script\/\">Sinoglot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geba_script\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like its sibling (parent?) script, Naxi Dongba, Naxi Geba is highly idiosyncratic and used mostly for religious writings.\u00a0 Unlike Naxi Dongba, Naxi Geba is a syllabary, but different people used different symbols for the same syllable. This makes it less &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/naxi-geba-1200-ad-s-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,29,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-now-ceremonial","category-unknown","category-syllabaries-language-types"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}