Tai Anphabet

Tai Anphabet  
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The Tai Anphabet was designed to write languages of the Tai family,
which includes Thai, Lanna, Lao, etc, by Ian James. There is only one
glyph per phoneme, and tone-marks sit upon the vowel. The aim was to
have a writing system in a single channel, in a linear-alphabetic
fashion. Originally the vowel and tone-mark were integrated into a
single glyph so there were no floating diacritics at all, but this
was found to be too awkward to write. The shapes are derived from
or reminiscent of various Tai scripts, especially Thai and Lanna.

Notable features

  • Type of writing system: alphabet
  • Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines
  • Used to write: Thai, Lao, Lanna, and other Tai languages

Tai Anphabet

Consonants

Tai Anphabet consonants

Vowels

Tai Anphabet vowels

Diphthongs

Broadening diphthongs have their own letter; narrowing diphthongs and triphthongs are formed with a suffix

Tai Anphabet diphthongs

Tone indication

There is no need for Tone Rules based on consonant class, as tone contours
are directly encoded. Tone-marks are placed upon the vowel (or first of a
double-letter vowel). Tone strokes for Thai are shown here with /i/.

Tai Anphabet tones

Sample text

Sample text in the Tai Anphbaet

IPA transcription

IPA transcription of the Tai Anphbaet sample text

Translation

Once upon a time, there was a young lady named Phikul. She was a lovely
person, in heart, appearance, behaviour, manners, everything.

More details of the Tai Anphabet
http://www.skyknowledge.com/anphabet.htm

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