Talk:Geba syllabary

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In the Nakhi article, it says,

Structurally similar to the Chinese characters with some new inventions and simplified pictographs from the Dongba script, the Geba script was the result of Chinese cultural influence. Unlike Dongba, Geba was not as widely used, and it soon fell into disuse. Today, only Nakhi scholars do have some knowledge of the Geba script.

Written in horizontal lines running from left to right, the phonetic values of Geba symbols are not fixed. Instead, each user, who would also have been literate in Dongba, had a tendency to use one set of readings over another. Symbols can have either various phonetic values, or one phonetic value, which can be signified by a number of different graphs.

I've seen various contradictory explanations of the Naxi scripts, and this is incompatible with the sources used for this article. There seems to be very little reliable information available, so I don't want to choose between them. kwami (talk) 00:12, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]