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A Comparison Between the Development of the Chinese Writing System and Dongba Pictographs
A Comparison Between the Development of the Chinese Writing System and Dongba Pictographs
Seaver Milnor
University of Washington
The Naxi Dongba pictographic script is strikingly different from Chinese characters in the complexity of graphs. To draw an analogy with ancient Egyptian, even the traditional Chinese characters still in use in Hong Kong and Taiwan are like a [...]