New Tai Lue alphabet

New Tai Lü
ᦟᦲᧅᦷᦎᦺᦑᦟᦹᧉ
Xishuangbanna Dai
Script type
Time period
c. 1950–present
DirectionLeft-to-right Edit this on Wikidata
LanguagesTai Lue
Related scripts
Parent systems
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Talu (354), ​New Tai Lue
Unicode
Unicode alias
New Tai Lue
U+1980–U+19DF
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Brahmic scripts
The Brahmi script and its descendants
Northern Brahmic
Southern Brahmic
China Post logo with New Tai Lü script reading hoŋ⁴ faːk¹ haːi¹ tsoŋ⁵ ko⁶ in Mohan, Yunnan.

New Tai Lue script, also known as Xishuangbanna Dai[4] and Simplified Tai Lue (Tai Lue: ᦟᦲᧅᦷᦎᦺᦑᦟᦹᧉ), is an abugida used to write the Tai Lue language. 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. In addition, communities in Burma, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam still use the Tai Tham alphabet.

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  2. ^ Hartmann, John F. (1986). "The spread of South Indic scripts in Southeast Asia". Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 3 (1): 6–20. JSTOR 40860228.
  3. ^ Penth, Hans (1986). "On the History of Thai scripts" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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  5. ^ "New Tai Lue script". www.omniglot.com. Retrieved 2024-09-10.