Tai Le

Script Details

Tai Le

De'ang scripture

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DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched

Data

Alternate Names Dehong Dai, Tai Nüa, Tai Mau, Tai Kong, Chinese Shan
ISO 15924 Tale 353
Type Abugida
Family Mainland Southeast Asian
Direction LtR
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 34
Inventor Unknown
Earliest Location South Central Yunnan, People's Republic of China
Earliest Date 1100 CE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry

Overview

“The Tai Le script has a history of 700–800 years, during which time several orthographic conventions were used. The modern form of the script was developed in the years following 1954; it rationalized the older system and added a systematic representation of tones with the use of combining diacritics. The new system was revised again in 1988, when spacing tone marks were introduced to replace the combining diacritics. The Unicode encoding of Tai Le handles both the modern form of the script and its more recent revision.” - The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard 15.0

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 110-136 Blackwell Publishing
Court, Christopher 1996 The World's Writing Systems, The spread of Brahmi Script into Southeast Asia, 445-449 Oxford University Press
The Unicode Consortium 2022 The Unicode Standard 15.0, Chapter 16: Southeast Asia-I, p. 689 The Unicode Consortium