唐韵 TangYun (东巴 Dongba) Icons 1.0
Description: 使用电子东巴生成, 图意对应.
Chinese - English - Dongba - IM Status Dictionary:
http://lancaster.themex.net/archives/1237
东巴文是一种兼备表意和表音成分的图画象形文字。其文字形态十分原始，甚至比甲骨文的形态还要原始，属于文字起源的早期形态，但亦能完整纪录典藏。
东巴文是居于西藏东部及云南省北部的少数民族纳西族所使用的文字。东巴文源于纳西族的宗教典籍兼百科全书的《东巴经》。由于这种文字由东巴（智者）所掌握，故称东巴文。
东巴文有2223个单字，词语丰富，能够表达细腻的情感，能记录复杂的事件，亦能写诗作文。东巴文是世界上极少数依旧活着的象形文字，被誉为文字的“活化石”。2003年，东巴古籍被联合国教科文组织列入世界记忆名录，并进行数码记录。
维基中文:
http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E4%B8%9C%E5%B7%B4%E6%96%87&variant=zh-cn
The Dongba, Tomba or Tompa script is a pictographic writing system used by the ²dto¹mba (Bon priests) of the Naxi people. In the Naxi language it is called ²ss ³dgyu ‘wood records’ or ²lv ³dgyu ‘stone records’[1]. Together with the geba syllabary and the Latin alphabet, it is one of the three Naxi scripts. Dongba is perhaps a thousand years old. The glyphs may be used as rebuss for abstract words which do not have glyphs. It is largely a mnemonic system, and cannot by itself represent the Naxi language; different authors may use the same glyphs with different meanings, and it may be supplemented with the syllabic geba script for clarification.
Wikipedia EN:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongba_script