Kayah Li

Kayah or Kayah Li is a member of Karen branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is spoken by about 210,000 people in the Kayah and Karen states of Burma (Myanmar). The language and people who speak it are also known as Western Kayah, Karenni, Karennyi, Red Karen, Yang Daeng or Karieng Daeng.

The Kayah Li alphabet was devised by Htae Bu Phae in March 1962. It is taught in schools in refugee camps in Thailand. It appears to be modelled, to some extent, on scripts such as Thai and Burmese.

Notable features

Type of writing system: alphabet
Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines
Consonants Other vowels are written with separate letters or with diacritics attached to the letter a.
Tones are indicated by diacritics below the consonants.

Kayah Li alphabet

Download Kayah Li fonts (TrueType format, 37K)

Links

Information about the Kayah-li alphabet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayah_Li_script
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3038.pdf (PDF)

Information about the Karenni people
http://www.karenni.org/about_the_karenni.php

Information about the Kayah State
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayah_State

Karenni Students Union (includes free Karenni/Kayah-li fonts)
http://www.karennisu.org

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