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- Ersu_Shaba_script abstract "The Ersu Shaba script, also called Ersu Shaba Picture Writing and known in Ersu as [ndzārāmá], is the writing system used in texts of the indigenous religion of the Ersu people, which is rendered in Chinese as Shābā (沙巴). These scriptures are recited in divination and when treating the sick. The script is used for non-scriptural texts as well, such as astrological almanacs, but predominantly ones which concern religion. Only Shaba priests are literate in the script. The script is predominantly pictographic. It is limited in scope and is not sufficient to write the Ersu language fully. Some 200 glyphs have been identified, most of them depicting (and resembling) concrete objects. These are combined into composite diagrams. The system is (proto-)writing, as the relationship between form and meaning is fixed: Although glyphs may be written simply or elaborately, they may not be chosen at the author's whim, and pronunciation and interpretation is consistent across the several counties of the Ersu-speaking area. However, it typically takes many words to explain a few glyphs; the connection to language is definite in the object depicted, but the position and context of the glyphs does not have a fixed linguistic correlation. Writing is done with a bamboo brush or animal hair dipped in white, black, red, blue, green, and yellow-colored ink. The color chosen may affect the meaning. For example, the glyph 'stars and moon' written in black means 'dim', but written in white it means 'shining' (Sun 2009:165).".
- Ersu_Shaba_script thumbnail Ersu_Shaba_diagram.png?width=300.
- Ersu_Shaba_script wikiPageExternalLink SunHongkaimtshoMoSkyidAndGRocheTranslatorsWithAnIntroductionByT.
- Ersu_Shaba_script wikiPageID "31529690".
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- Ersu_Shaba_script hasPhotoCollection Ersu_Shaba_script.
- Ersu_Shaba_script languages Ersu_language.
- Ersu_Shaba_script name "Ersu Shaba".
- Ersu_Shaba_script notice "nonotice".
- Ersu_Shaba_script sample "Ersu Shaba diagram.png".
- Ersu_Shaba_script time "ca. 1000–1500 CE to present".
- Ersu_Shaba_script type "Pictographic".
- Ersu_Shaba_script subject Category:Qiangic_languages.
- Ersu_Shaba_script subject Category:Writing_systems.
- Ersu_Shaba_script type Abstraction100002137.
- Ersu_Shaba_script type Communication100033020.
- Ersu_Shaba_script type Language106282651.
- Ersu_Shaba_script type Orthography106351202.
- Ersu_Shaba_script type QiangicLanguages.
- Ersu_Shaba_script type Writing106359877.
- Ersu_Shaba_script type WritingSystems.
- Ersu_Shaba_script type WrittenCommunication106349220.
- Ersu_Shaba_script comment "The Ersu Shaba script, also called Ersu Shaba Picture Writing and known in Ersu as [ndzārāmá], is the writing system used in texts of the indigenous religion of the Ersu people, which is rendered in Chinese as Shābā (沙巴). These scriptures are recited in divination and when treating the sick. The script is used for non-scriptural texts as well, such as astrological almanacs, but predominantly ones which concern religion. Only Shaba priests are literate in the script.".
- Ersu_Shaba_script label "Ersu Shaba script".
- Ersu_Shaba_script sameAs m.0glrxg7.
- Ersu_Shaba_script sameAs Q5395877.
- Ersu_Shaba_script sameAs Q5395877.
- Ersu_Shaba_script sameAs Ersu_Shaba_script.
- Ersu_Shaba_script wasDerivedFrom Ersu_Shaba_script?oldid=552789129.
- Ersu_Shaba_script depiction Ersu_Shaba_diagram.png.
- Ersu_Shaba_script isPrimaryTopicOf Ersu_Shaba_script.
