SOME 8500 years ago, people in what is now China started using written symbols to communicate and store knowledge. At first they used pictures to represent words and ideas – a characteristic shared by ...
A one-hour language class on the Dongba script, one of the pictographic writing systems still in use today, was held online on Tuesday as part of a series of events to mark the United Nations' annual ...
Dongba lettering is the world's only pictographic script system still in use. Let's have a look at this unique written system of the Naxi ethnic group in Southwest China's Yunnan province.