Tai Le script
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The Tai Le script (ᥖᥭᥰ ᥘᥫᥴ, [tai˦.lə˧˥]), or Dehong Dai script, is a Brahmic script used to write the Tai Nüa language spoken by the Tai Nua people of south-central Yunnan, China. (The language is also known as Nɯa, Dehong Dai and Chinese Shan.) It is written in horizontal lines from left to right, with spaces only between clauses and sentences.
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Tai Le Dehong Dai | |
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Script type | |
Time period | c. 1200 CE – present |
Direction | Left-to-right |
Languages | Tai Nüa, Ta'ang, Blang, Achang |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Proto-Sinaitic alphabet[a]
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Sister systems | Ahom, Khamti |
ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Tale (353), Tai Le |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Tai Le |
U+1950–U+197F | |
[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon. | |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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The Tai Le script is approximately 700–800 years old and has used several different orthographic conventions.[2]