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Developed in China in the 1950s, New Tai Lue is based on the traditional Tai Tham alphabet developed c. 1200. [5] The government of China promoted the alphabet for use as a replacement for the older script; teaching the script was not mandatory , however, and as a result many are illiterate in New Tai Lue.
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)
This stems from a major change (a tone split) that occurred historically in the phonology of the Thai language. At the time the Thai script was created, the language had three tones and a full set of contrasts between voiced and unvoiced consonants at the beginning of a syllable (e.g. z vs. s). At a later time, the voicing distinction ...
New Tai Lue is a modernization of the Lanna alphabet (also known as the Tai Tham script), which is similar to the Thai alphabet, and consists of 42 initial consonant signs (21 high-tone class, 21 low-tone class), seven final consonant signs, 16 vowel signs, two tone letters and one vowel shortening letter (or syllable-final glottal stop ...
The Shavian alphabet is an alternative phonemic alphabet for the English language. It is supported by the following fonts: Inter Alia; Noto Sans Shavian, a font made by Google; Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
The Northern Thai language is a close relative of (standard) Thai. It is spoken by nearly 6 million people in Northern Thailand and several thousand in Laos of whom few are literate in Lanna script. The script is still read by older monks. Northern Thai has six linguistic tones and Thai only five, making transcription into the Thai alphabet ...
The Iu Mien language (Iu Mien: Iu Mienh, [ju˧ mjɛn˧˩]; Chinese: 勉語 or 勉方言; Thai: ภาษาอิวเมี่ยน) is the language spoken by the Iu Mien people in China (where they are considered a constituent group of the Yao peoples), Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and, more recently, the United States in diaspora.
According to Thai authors, the writing system is probably derived from the old Thai writing of the kingdom of Sukhotai. [3] It has been suggested that the Fakkham script is the source of the Tai Don, Tai Dam and Tai Daeng writing systems found in Jinping ( China ), northern Laos, and Vietnam .