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- Nsibidi abstract "Nsibidi (also known as nsibiri, nchibiddi or nchibiddy) is a system of symbols indigenous to what is now southeastern Nigeria that is apparently an ideographic script, though there have been suggestions that it includes logographic elements. The symbols are at least several centuries old: Early forms appeared on excavated pottery as well as what are most likely ceramic stools and headrests from the Calabar region, with a range of dates from 400 to 1400 CE.There are thousands of nsibidi symbols, of which over 500 have been recorded. They were once taught in a school to children. Many of the signs deal with love affairs; those that deal with warfare and the sacred are kept secret. Nsibidi is used on wall designs, calabashes, metals (such as bronze), leaves, swords, and tattoos. It is primarily used by the Ekpe leopard secret society (also known as Ngbe or Egbo), which is found across Cross River among the Ekoi, Efik, Igbo people, and other nearby peoples.Outside knowledge of nsibidi came in 1904 when T.D. Maxwell noticed the symbols. Before the British colonisation of the area, nsibidi was divided into a sacred version and a public, more decorative version which could be used by women. Aspects of colonisation such as Western education and Christian doctrine drastically reduced the number of nsibidi-literate people, leaving the secret society members as some of the last literate in the symbols. Nsibidi was and is still a means of transmitting Ekpe symbolism. Nsibidi was transported to Cuba and Haiti via the Atlantic slave trade, where it developed into the anaforuana and veve symbols.".
- Nsibidi thumbnail Nsibidi_name_written.jpg?width=300.
- Nsibidi wikiPageExternalLink Nsibidi.html.
- Nsibidi wikiPageID "6839343".
- Nsibidi wikiPageLength "14681".
- Nsibidi wikiPageOutDegree "54".
- Nsibidi wikiPageRevisionID "675443056".
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Abakaliki.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Abiriba.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Anaforuana.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Arochukwu.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic_slave_trade.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Calabar.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Calabash.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cross_River_languages.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Igbo_language.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Proto-writing.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Visual_motifs.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Writing_systems_of_Africa.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Colonial_Nigeria.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Cross_River_(state).
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Cross_River_State.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Cuba.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Efik_language.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Efik_people.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Ekoid_languages.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Ekpe.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Haiti.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink History_of_writing.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Ideogram.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Igbo_language.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Igbo_people.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Leopard_Society.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Leopard_society.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Logogram.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Nigeria.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Ohafia.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Pictogram.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Secret_society.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Tattoo.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Uli_(design).
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink Veve.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Ikpe_nsibidi.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_big_drum.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_calabash.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_cross_bow.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_door.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_gun.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_man.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_matchet.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_moon.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_name_written.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_plantain.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_talk.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_toilet_soap.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_tortoise.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_umbrella.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_welcome.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Nsibidi_woman.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Onuaha.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLink File:Ukara_cloth.jpg.
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nsibidi Script".
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nsibidi".
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ukara".
- Nsibidi wikiPageWikiLinkText "nsibidi".
- Nsibidi caption "A symbol simply described as "Nsibidi name written" by Elphinstone Dayrell in 1911.".
- Nsibidi children "anaforuana , veve".
- Nsibidi fam "Nsibidi".
- Nsibidi hasPhotoCollection Nsibidi.
- Nsibidi imagesize "250".
- Nsibidi languages Efik_language.
- Nsibidi languages Ekoid_languages.
- Nsibidi languages Igbo_language.
- Nsibidi name "Nsibidi".
- Nsibidi note "none".
- Nsibidi sample "Nsibidi name written.jpg".
- Nsibidi time "pre 15th century – present".
- Nsibidi type "Ideographic".
- Nsibidi typedesc "with pictographic and perhaps logographic elements".
- Nsibidi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Col-3.
- Nsibidi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Col-end.
- Nsibidi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Col-start.
- Nsibidi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Gallery.
- Nsibidi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Igbo_language.
- Nsibidi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_writing_system.
- Nsibidi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:List_of_writing_systems.
- Nsibidi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Nsibidi subject Category:Cross_River_languages.
- Nsibidi subject Category:Igbo_language.
- Nsibidi subject Category:Proto-writing.
- Nsibidi subject Category:Visual_motifs.
- Nsibidi subject Category:Writing_systems_of_Africa.
- Nsibidi hypernym System.
- Nsibidi type Language.
- Nsibidi type Language.
- Nsibidi comment "Nsibidi (also known as nsibiri, nchibiddi or nchibiddy) is a system of symbols indigenous to what is now southeastern Nigeria that is apparently an ideographic script, though there have been suggestions that it includes logographic elements.".
- Nsibidi label "Nsibidi".
- Nsibidi sameAs Nsibidi.
- Nsibidi sameAs Nsibidi-Schrift.
- Nsibidi sameAs Símbolos_nsibidi.