Geba syllabary

For other uses, see Geba.

Geba is a syllabic script for the Naxi language. It is called ¹Ggo¹baw in Naxi, adapted as Geba, 哥巴, in Chinese. Some glyphs resemble the Yi script, and some appear to be adaptations of Chinese characters. Geba is used only to transcribe mantras, and there are few texts, though it is sometimes used to annotate dongba pictographs. Geba's phonetics can vary depending on who is using it. Symbols do not have fixed phonetic values, and they may have the same phonetic values as well.

Naxi scripture using the Geba syllabary (Yunnan Nationalities Museum in Kunming, Yunnan, China)

Geba
Script type	Syllabary
Period	Unknown — present
Direction	Left-to-right
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Nkgb (420), ​Naxi Geba (na²¹ɕi³³ gʌ²¹ba²¹, 'Na-'Khi ²Ggŏ-¹baw, Nakhi Geba)

See also

• Naxi script

External links

• Dr. Richard S. Cook, Naxi Pictographic and Syllabographic Scripts: Research notes toward a Unicode encoding of Naxi Archived 2015-07-30 at the Wayback Machine
• Naxi scripts at Omniglot