I do sa

This naxi manuscript entitled "I do sa" contains an invocation to the great gods. The Geba syllabic writing system seen in this manuscript uses a different sign to represent each of the syllabes of Naxi, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in southern China. The Naxi Geba script is based on a syllabic alphabet without standardisation unlike Dongba script which is based on pictographs. The "ba" in Geba…