Kirat Rai

Kirat Rai
Rai
Khambu Rai
Rai Barṇamālā
Kirat Khambu Rai
Script type
Time period
1920 – present
LanguagesBantawa
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Krai (396), ​Kirat Rai
Unicode
Unicode alias
Kirat Rai
U+16D40–U+16D7F
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Kirat Rai (also called Khambu Rai, Rai Barṇamālā and Kirat Khambu Rai) is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental writing system), based on the Sumhung Lipi of 1920s, used to write the Bantawa language in the Indian state of Sikkim.[1] Kirat Rai is composed of 31 primary characters, including seven vowels (and seven related vowel diacritics), one of which (/a/) is inherent in all consonants, 31 consonants, a virama to cancel the inherent vowel, and a vowel carrier to be used in combination with the vowel diacritics for writing word-initial vowels.[2]

  1. ^ Mandal, Biswajit; Evans, Lorna (2022-02-14). "Proposal to Encode Kirat Rai script in the Universal Character Set" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Kirat Rai". Scriptsource.org. Retrieved 10 November 2023.