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Thai alphabet
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characteristics of Tai languages
- In Tai languages: Writing
The Modern Thai alphabet (see Thai alphabetThai alphabet.table) is a modified form of the original writing. It preserves the old distinction of voiced (low), voiceless aspirate (high), and voiceless unaspirate/glottalized
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development of Indic writing systems
- In Indic writing systems
The Thai writing system is thought by scholars to be derived from that of the Khmer, the Burmese and Lao systems from that of Mon, and the Buginese and Batak systems of Indonesia from that of Kavi. The scripts used by speakers of the Tai dialects…
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