Myanmar (Burmese)

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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
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

Overview

The ISO 15924 categorizes many different alphabets used by people in Myanmar under code Mymr 350.

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
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