Old Tai Lue script
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Old Tai Lue script is a historic Brahmic-derived writing system traditionally used by the Tai Lue people of Southeast Asia to write the Tai Lue language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Tai Lue script canonical | 2 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brahmic script
ⓘ
abugida ⓘ historic script ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Tai Lue cultural heritage ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Burmese script
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lanna (Tai Tham) script NERFINISHED ⓘ Mon script ⓘ New Tai Lue script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Tai Lue Buddhist manuscript tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Brahmic scripts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mon–Burmese script tradition ⓘ |
| graphemeInventory |
numerals
ⓘ
set of consonant letters ⓘ set of dependent vowel signs ⓘ tone marks ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
consonant ligatures
ⓘ
digits 0–9 ⓘ distinct letters for aspirated and unaspirated stops ⓘ inherent vowel /a/ in consonant letters ⓘ tone marks ⓘ vowel signs attached to consonants ⓘ |
| historicalUsage | local administration in Tai Lue principalities ⓘ |
| influenced | New Tai Lue orthography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamilyWritten | Tai languages ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
administrative records in Tai Lue polities
ⓘ
chronicles and traditional literature ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| region |
Laos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ Yunnan, China NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Thailand ⓘ |
| scriptCodeStatus | not encoded as a separate script in Unicode ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Brahmic ⓘ |
| scriptType | alphasyllabary ⓘ |
| status |
historical
ⓘ
partly replaced by Lao script ⓘ partly replaced by New Tai Lue script ⓘ partly replaced by Thai script ⓘ |
| timePeriod | pre-modern era of Tai Lue literacy ⓘ |
| usedBy | Tai Lue people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
mulberry paper manuscripts
ⓘ
palm-leaf manuscripts ⓘ |
| userCommunity | Buddhist monastic communities among Tai Lue ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingSystemClass | segmental writing system ⓘ |
| writingSystemFor | Tai Lue language ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.