- Lanna script
Infobox Writing system
name=Lanna
time = c.1300 –present
languages=Northern Thai, Tai Lü, Khün
fam1=Proto-Canaanite alphabet
fam2=Phoenician alphabet
fam3=Aramaic alphabet
fam4=Brāhmī
fam5=Pallava
fam6=Old Mon
type=Abugida
iso15924=LanaThe Lanna script (. 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 theChiang Saeng language family. It is spoken by nearly 6,000,000 people inNorthern Thailand and several thousand inLaos of whom few are literate in Lanna script, although there is some resurgent interest in the script among the young. Northern Thai is now written with theThai alphabet .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.
References
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*External links
* [http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=nod Ethnologue report for Northern Thai]
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