Yi syllable Muo

It represents one spoken syllable; context gives its word. The Liangshan romanized label is “muo.”

Traditional Yi writing, called Cuan or Wei, varied locally; village bimo, ritual specialists, kept religious, magical, medical and genealogical manuscripts. Tradition credits Aki with its creation in the Tang dynasty (618–907); the earliest surviving example is a bronze-bell inscription dated 1485. Traditional Yi signs appear not to derive from Chinese characters. A Latin-based scheme to improve Liangshan literacy began in 1956; the syllabary was standardized from traditional forms in 1974 and promulgated in 1980. It writes Liangshan Yi, not all Yi varieties.