S'gaw Karen alphabet

S'gaw Karen
ကညီလံာ်ခီၣ်ထံး
S'gaw Karen; ကညီလံာ်ခီၣ်ထံး
Script type	Abugida
Period	1830–present
Languages	S'gaw Karen language ksw
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Brahmi script Pallava script Mon-Burmese S'gaw Karen; ; ; ; ; ;
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Mymr (350), Myanmar (Burmese)
Unicode
Unicode alias	Myanmar
Unicode range	Myanmar-Karen-Sgaw;
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The S'gaw Karen alphabet (S'gaw Karen: ကညီလံာ်ခီၣ်ထံး) is an abugida used for writing S'gaw Karen. It was created in the early 1830s based on the Burmese script, which derives from either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India. The S'gaw Karen alphabet is also used for the liturgical languages of Pali and Sanskrit.

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ယ y IPA: [j]	ရ r IPA: [r]	လ l IPA: [l]	ဝ w IPA: [w]	သ th IPA: [θ]
ဟ h IPA: [h]	အ vowel holder IPA: [ʔ]	ဧ ahh IPA: [ɦ]

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