Tai Viet script (ꪎꪳ ꪼꪕ)

The Tai Viet script is a Brahmic script used by speakers of Tai Dam in Vietnam and Thailand. Tai Dam is a Southwestern Tai language spoken mainly in Vietnam and also Laos, Thailand and China by about 777,700 people.

It is believed by Thai scholars that the Tai Viet script developed from the Sukhothai script, which was used in the Sukhothai Kingdom (1238-1584).

Notable features

Type of writing system: alphabet
Writing direction: left to write in horizontal lines
Used to write: Tai Dam, Tai Dón, Thai Song
Each consonant letter has a high and low form, which combined with the presence or absence of the two tones marks, is used to indicate the six tones of the Tai Dam language.
The high consonants are also used for the syllable final letters: -w, -y, -m, -n and -ng. The syllable final -k is written with the low letter k.
Vowels are indicated using diacritics which appear above, below or to the left and/or right of the consonant letters.
There is no standard order for the consonants, instead each scribe uses his own order.

Tai Viet script for Tai Dam

Download an alphabet chart for Tai Viet (Excel)

Sample text in Tai Dam in the Tai Viet script

Tai Dam sample text

Links

Information about the Tai Viet script
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Viet_script
https://r12a.github.io/scripts/taiviet/blt.html

Tai Viet fonts
https://software.sil.org/taiheritage/

Languages writing with the Tai Viet script

Tai Dam, Tai Dón, Thai Song

Alphabets

A-chik Tokbirim, Adinkra, ADLaM, Armenian, Avestan, Avoiuli, Bactrian, Bassa (Vah), Beitha Kukju, Beria (Zaghawa), Borama / Gadabuursi, Carian, Carpathian Basin Rovas, Chinuk pipa, Chisoi, Coorgi-Cox, Coptic, Cyrillic, Dalecarlian runes, Elbasan, Etruscan, Faliscan, Fox, Galik, Georgian (Asomtavruli), Georgian (Nuskhuri), Georgian (Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Global Alphabet, Gothic, Greek, Irish (Uncial), Kaddare, Kayah Li, Khatt-i-Badí’, Khazarian Rovas, Koch, Korean, Latin, Lepontic, Luo Lakeside Script, Lycian, Lydian, Manchu, Mandaic, Mandombe, Marsiliana, Medefaidrin, Messapic, Mongolian, Mro, Mundari Bani, Nag Chiki, Naasioi Otomaung, N'Ko, North Picene, Novo Tupi, Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong, Odùduwà, Ogham, Old Church Slavonic, Oirat Clear Script, Ol Chiki (Ol Cemet' / Santali), Old Italic, Old Nubian, Old Permic, Ol Onal, Orkhon, Osage, Oscan, Osmanya (Somali), Pau Cin Hau, Phrygian, Pollard script, Runic, Székely-Hungarian Rovás (Hungarian Runes), South Picene, Sutton SignWriting, Sunuwar, Tai Viet, Tangsa, Todhri, Toto, Umbrian, (Old) Uyghur, Wancho, Yezidi, Zoulai

Other writing systems

Page last modified: 04.08.23

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