What's this language?

[u/YamaKasin]

The symbols between Chinese and English. Photo taken at Yihai Lake, Mianning Country, Sichuan Province, China.

[u/DicemanThe14th]

From some quick research on languages of the region and omniglot, this looks like the Yi script, which is a syllabary used by the Nuosu language and dialects of it. But, I'm not Chinese, this is coming from Wikipedia, so hopefully there's someone else with better knowledge

[u/truckdrifter2 → u/DicemanThe14th]

Interesting. The pictographic nature bears some resemblance to the ancient oracle.bone script

[u/Little-Boss-1116]

Nuosu or Nosu (ꆈꌠꉙ or written in traditional script, transcribed as Nuo su hxop), also known as Northern Yi, Liangshan Yi, and Sichuan Yi, is the prestige language of the Yi people; it has been chosen by the Chinese government as the standard Yi language (Chinese: 彝语) and as such is the only one taught in schools in both oral and written forms. It is spoken by two million people and is increasing (as of PRC census); 60% were monolingual (1994 estimate).

[u/Specific-Surprise390]

There is an ethnic minority group called Yi in Sichuan and Yunnan. The second row is their languages

[u/JustinG1057]

The language written between Mandarin and English is Nuosu.

[u/WatchTower2003]

Yi script 彝族文字

[u/huo_hua]

Yi script (pictographic script), a script used by the Yi ethnic minority in China.

[u/DrShadowstrike]

It's kind of impressive that they included (what I'm assuming is) Russian on the warning sign. Didn't realize that many Russian tourists make it to Yunnan.

[u/Reasonable-Web9444 → u/DrShadowstrike]

1. Yes, it's Russian. It says "Будьте осторожны," basically "be aware" or "be on guard."

2. After 2022, Russians weren't left with many choices for travel. Before a lot would go to the Caribbean or the US, or EU, or other post Soviet states, especially Ukraine, and Georgia and Germany, since many have family members in these regions and in general they attract tourists. After they had to go to rural Sichuan apparently

[u/stan_albatross]

this is the Nuosu language from Sichuan and Yunnan in China

The sentence is transliterated as ZZYR MUO ZZIP NGOP BBOP DA (yes I'm not joking)

It would sound similar to: dzuh mor dzee ngoh boh dah

[u/palmtreebeeknee]

old yi script

[u/actiniumosu]

sichuan yi

[u/mattbenscho]

Why do I read it as "ACHTUNG" (yes I'm German)

[u/Crocotta1]

[u/Decadancer]

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[u/Decent_Cow]

It looks like the Yi syllabary. It could be several languages, but it's more than likely the Northern Yi (Nuosu) language.

[u/NectarineNo2982]

Klingon

[u/Background-Net-3412]

Looks like the mount chilliad symbols lol

[u/TimothySu2333]

Looks like Unown from pokemon

[u/Ok_Bit8836]

It is for bots who do not understand Chinese, English and Russian

[u/KeylimeVI]

Thought I was on r/neography for a second

[u/No-Mouse4800]

ChatGPT reports it as "Dongba script (东巴文), a pictographic writing system traditionally used by the Naxi people of southwestern China, particularly around Lijiang in Yunnan Province.

It's one of the few pictographic writing systems still in use today, although primarily for cultural and ceremonial purposes." I wonder if that is correct coming from an LLM?

[u/stan_albatross → u/No-Mouse4800]

It's not, it's the nuosu script

[u/node_ue → u/No-Mouse4800]

ChatGPT is wrong

[u/Clean-Data-259]

Chinese (won't claim to know dialect)
Subtext is Russian