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The Fakkham script (Thai: อักษรฝักขาม, "Tamarind pod-script") or Thai Lanna script is a Brahmic script, used historically in the Lan Na Kingdom. The script was frequently used in Lan Na stone inscriptions.
The Lan Na kingdom is known by a number of exonyms in neighboring languages. In Burmese chronicles and sources, it is called Zinme Pyi (Burmese: ဇင်းမယ်ပြည်, pronounced [zɪ́ɰ̃mɛ̀ pjì]), Zinme being a Burmese language transcription of Chiang Mai; or Yun Pyi (ယွန်းပြည်, [yʊ́ɰ̃ pjì]), Yun being the Burmese term for the Northern Thai people.
Tai Tham is a Unicode block containing characters of the Lanna script used for writing the Northern Thai (Kam Mu'ang), Tai Lü, and Khün languages. Tai Tham [1] [2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
The known history of the Lanna-related dynasties and rulers begins with the founding of the Ngoenyang Kingdom, inaugurated by Lawachangkarat [] in 638. [1] This was succeeded by the Lanna Kingdom and then as a tributary state of Siam in 1775 until it was annexed to Thailand in 1909, [2] and the title of the ruler of Lanna Chiang Mai was dissolved in 1939.
Lan Na, or Lanna, was a kingdom in northern Thailand from the 13th to 18th centuries. Lanna may also refer to: Lanna people, or Northern Thai, an ethnic group native to the former kingdom; Lanna language, or Northern Thai language, spoken in the area of the former kingdom; Lanna script, or Tai Tham, a script used for languages of the region
The reconstructed language is called Proto-Thai; cf. Proto-Tai, which is the ancestor of all of the Tai languages. The following tree follows that of Ethnologue [10] Southern Thai (Pak Thai) (Thailand) Chiang Saen dialects (10) Tai Dam (Black Tai; Vietnam, Thailand, Laos) Northern Thai (Lanna, Tai Yuan; Thailand, Laos, Burma)
The house is composed of two compartments sharing the same platform. It is named after the decorative wooden carvings protruding from the top of the gables, features typically found in traditional northern Thai houses. The house is a combination of traditional Lanna and Tai Lue, TaiKhoen and Tai Yong ethnic groups’ residences. The influences ...
The table presents information based on two sources, one from Gedney (1999) [17] and the other one from the Lanna dictionary (2007) [16] which is a Northern Thai-Thai dictionary. Although published in 1999, Gedney's information about the Chiang Mai dialect is based on data he collected from one speaker in Chiang Mai in 1964 (p. 725).