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Lanna
TypeAbugida
Spoken languagesNorthern Thai
Time periodc. An abugida ( from Ge‘ez አቡጊዳ ’äbugida or Amharic አቡጊዳ ’abugida is a segmental Writing system which The Northern Thai language or Kham Mueang (คำเมือง or Lanna is the language of the Thai Yuan people of Lannathai, Thailand. 1300–present
Parent systemsProto-Canaanite alphabet
 → Phoenician alphabet
  → Aramaic alphabet
   → Brāhmī
    → Pallava
     → Khmer
      → Lanna
ISO 15924Lana

The Lanna script is used for three living languages: Northern Thai (that is, Kam Mu’ang), Tai Lü and Khün. Tai Lü (or Tai Lue, Tai Le tai51 lɯ11 Xishuangbanna Dai Chinese 傣仂语 Dǎilèyǔ Vietnamese Lự or Lữ is a language spoken by In addition, the Lanna script is also used for Lao Tham (or old Lao) and other dialect variants in Buddhist palm leaves and notebooks. The script is also known as Tham or Yuan script.

The Northern Thai language is a close relative of Thai and member of the Chiang Saeng language family. The Northern Thai language or Kham Mueang (คำเมือง or Lanna is the language of the Thai Yuan people of Lannathai, Thailand. Thai (th ภาษาไทย, transcription: phasa thai, transliteration:; pʰāːsǎːtʰāj is the national and It is spoken by nearly 6,000,000 people in Northern Thailand and several thousand in Laos of whom few are literate in Lanna script, although there is some resurgent interest in the script among the young. Northern Thailand, one of the 5 regional groups of Thailand, usually describes the area covered by 17 provinces Laos (ˈlɑːoʊs or /ˈlaʊs/ officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a Landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma Northern Thai is now written with the Thai alphabet. The Thai Alphabet (อักษรไทย àksŏn thai) is used to write the Thai language and other minority languages in Thailand

There are 670,000 speakers of Tai Lü of whom those born before 1950 are literate in Lanna script. The script has also continued to be taught in the monasteries. There are 120,000 speakers of Khün for which Lanna is the only script.


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