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' Little Tai alphabet ') is also called To Lao (Northeastern Thai: โตลาว /tō la᷇ːw/, cf. Lao: ໂຕລາວ /tòː láːw/, lit. ' Lao letters '), which in contemporary Isan and Lao would be Tua Lao (Northeastern Thai: ตัวลาว /tūa la᷇ːw/ and Lao: ຕົວລາວ /tùa láːw/, respectively. The script is known ...
Lao script or Akson Lao (Lao: ອັກສອນລາວ [ʔák.sɔ̌ːn láːw]) is the primary script used to write the Lao language and other minority languages in Laos. Its earlier form, the Tai Noi script , was also used to write the Isan language , but was replaced by the Thai script .
The Khom script (Thai: อักษรขอม, romanized: akson khom, or later Thai: อักษรขอมไทย, romanized: akson khom thai; Lao: ອັກສອນຂອມ, romanized: Aksone Khom; Khmer: អក្សរខម, romanized: âksâr khâm) is a Brahmic script and a variant of the Khmer script used in Thailand and Laos, [2] which is used to write Pali, Sanskrit, Khmer ...
Isan Laos (autonym: ภาษาลาว / ພາສາລາວ, IPA: [pʰáː.sǎː láːw]; RTGS: Phasa Isan Laos) refers to the local development of the Lao language in Thailand, after the political split of the Lao-speaking world at the Mekong River at the conclusion of the Franco-Siamese crisis of 1893.
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Unlike the print Thai alphabet, which is an abugida, Thai and Lao Braille have full letters rather than diacritics for vowels. However, traces of the abugida remain: Only the consonants are based on the international English and French standard, while the vowels are reassigned and the five vowels transcribed a e i o u are taken from Japanese ...
These charts illustrate International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols used for pronunciations of the Lao/Isan (Lao script for Nongkhai-Vientiane dialect, a standard Lao in Laos; Thai script for Roi kaen sara sin dialect, a standard Isan in Thailand) [citation needed] and Phuan in Wikipedia articles.
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 ...