Lao

Script Details

Unicode Chart

View Externally

Maps

https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script_detail&key=Laoo

Data

ISO 15924 356 Laoo
Type Abugida
Family Northern Branch Of Brāhmī Descendants
Direction LtR
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms Yes
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 32 in modern script, 23 in old Lao
Earliest Date 1350 CE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 281-312 Blackwell Publishing