The ISO 15924 categorizes many different alphabets used by people in Myanmar under code Mymr 350.
Myanmar (Burmese)
A pali manuscript of a Buddhist text in three styles of Burmese
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Data
Alternate Names | Mon-Burmese, Shan, Old Mon, Mon |
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ISO 15924 | Mymr 350 |
Type | Abugida |
Family | Mainland Southeast Asian |
Direction | LtR |
Diacritics | Yes |
Contextual Forms | Yes |
Capitals Used | No |
Glyphs | 33 |
Inventor | Mon scribes, adapted the Mon script to Burmese |
Earliest Location | Bagan (Pagan), Myanmar |
Earliest Date | 10358CE |
Latest Date | Present |
Ancestry |
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Overview
Bibliography
Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
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Aung-Thwin, Michael A | 2005 | The Mists of Rāmañña: The Legend that was Lower Burma, p. 154-200 | University of Hawai'i Press |
Coulmas, Florian | 1999 | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 34-58 | Blackwell Publishing |
Hosken, Martin | 2012 | Unicode Technical Note #11 Representing Myanmar in Unicode: Details and Examples, p. 21-25 | The Unicode Consortium |
The Unicode Consortium; edited by the Unicode Consortium | 2022 | The Unicode Standard, Version 15.0 - Core Specification: Chapter 16 Southeast Asia-I Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, p. 670-676 | Unicode |
Wheatley, Julian | 1996 | The World's Writing Systems, Burmese Writing, 450-456 | Oxford University Press |