Manchu alphabet
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The Manchu alphabet is the alphabet used to write the now critically endangered Manchu language. A similar script called Xibe script is used today by the Xibe people, whose language is considered eith
18th-century manuscript
A bilingual sign in Chinese (left) and Manchu (right) in the Forbidden City
Coin of Nurhaci, reading Abkai fulingga han jiha, and written ᠠᠪᡴᠠᡳ ᡶ᠋ᠣᠯᡳᠩᡴᠠ ᡴᠠᠨ ᠵᡳᡴᠠ without diacritics (ᠠᠪᡴᠠᡳ ᡶ᠋ᡠᠯᡳᠩᡤᠠ ᡥᠠᠨ ᠵᡳᡥᠠ with later diacritics)
Sibe people
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The Sibe are a Tungusic-speaking East Asian ethnic group living mostly in Xinjiang, Jilin and Shenyang in Liaoning. The Sibe form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by China, and had a
Manchu alphabet
…manju hergen) is the alphabet used to write the now critically endangered Manchu language. A similar script called Xibe script is used today by the Xibe people, whose language is considered either a dialect of Manchu or a closely related, mutually intelligible language. It is written vertically from top to…
"Sibo military colonists" – picture drawn by Henry Lansdell during his 1882 visit to what is now Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County