CLAUDIA Pictogrph Index Plates

Classification of Dongba pictographs founded on iconographic primes criteria evinced a tree-structured inedx of categories and sub-categories in which is possible to gather Dongba pictographs themselves.

Index plates of pictographs is reported below and reproduced on Your left side menu: each voice (if implemented) is referred and linked to a category of pictographs. By clicking on each active voice You can access to a complete index plates of pictographs belonging to the chosen category or sub-category; actually just animals - complete are full realized, while parts of animals are implementing yet.

Each plates of pictographs are implemented as index archives of pictograph, labelled by capital key-letter for Family and minus key-letter for sub-family of pictographs, then each elements has its own identification number, as in Gardiner appendix Hieroglyphics dictionary in it's landmark work "Egyptian Grammar". Such indexing realize a precious resource for future complete pictograph dictionary, and CL.A.U.D.I.A. is just its computational implementation.

For further informations and how to use CLAUDIA's pictograph index plates please consult presentation & instruction page.

CL.A.U.D.I.A. is an interdisciplinary project of Human Technology application focused on Dongba pictographic writing system of Naxi people of South-West China, implemented as an on-fly demo during Kunming's 16th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (29 - 31 July).

Complete tree of pictographs index plates is reported below; implemented iconographic primes category are in underlined and bold style:

  • Sky, weather and seasons
  • Earth and Geography
  • Water
  • Trees and Plants
  • Animals (all basic pictographs belonging to iconographic prime "animal")
    1. Complete
    2. Parts of animals
  • Birds (all basic pictographs belonging to iconographic prime "birds")
    1. Complete
    2. Parts of birds
  • Reptiles and amphibians
  • Insects and small animals
  • Fishes (all basic pictographs belonging to iconographic prime "fishes")
    1. Complete
    2. Parts of fishes
    3. Shells
  • Woman and her occupation
  • Man and his occupation
  • Parts of human body
  • Family and clan
  • Dress and clothes
  • Jewels and precious
  • Crafts and professions
  • Domestic, food, drink
  • Home and buildings
  • Agriculture and Farming
  • Religion
  • Medicine
  • Music and Art
  • Gods and demons
  • Strokes and undefined