Dehong Dai script

Origins

The Dehong Dai script developed from a script known as Old Dai, which developed from a script called Baiyi. The Dehong script is used mainly by the Tai Ne/Le people in the Dehong region in southwestern Yunnan province. It has also been used on occasion by the Jingpo people.

Notable features:

Each consonant has an inherent vowel /a/. Other vowels are indicated by separate letters.
Words are not separated by spaces. Instead spaces appear between clauses and sentences.

Used to write:

Dehong Dai, a Tai language with about 443,000 speakers mainly in Dehong Prefecture of Yunnan province in the southwest of China. It is also spoken in northern Vietnam, France, Laos, Myanmar, Switzerland, Thailand. The language has many names, including Tai Nua, Tai Neua, Tai Le, Chinese Shan and Chinese Tai.

Dehong Dai script

Sample text

Sample text in Tai Nua

Source: http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/TaiDehong/

Links

Online Dehong Dai lessons (includes free Dehong fonts)
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/TaiDehong

Free Dehong Dai font
http://www.fixedsys.org/

Other syllabic alphabets

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