Tai Viet
The Tai Viet script consists of 31 consonants and 14 vowels. Although the language is tonal, there are no tone markers, as there are in Thai and Lao. According to Thai authors, the writing system is probably derived from the old Thai writing of the kingdom of Sukhotai.[1]
Consonant key (in Chinese)
| Tai Viet | |
|---|---|
| Type | |
| Languages | Tai Dam, Tai Dón, and Thai Song |
Parent systems | Proto-Sinaitic alphabet
|
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| ISO 15924 | Tavt, 359 |
Unicode alias | Tai Viet |
Unicode
Proposals to encode Tai Viet script in Unicode go back to 2006.[2] A Unicode subcommittee reviewed a February 6, 2007 proposal submitted by James Brase of SIL International for what was then called Tay Viet script.[3] At the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 meeting on April 24, 2007, a revised proposal[4] for the script, now known as Tai Viet, was accepted "as is", with support[5] from TCVN, the Vietnam Quality & Standards Centre.
Further reading
References
- Bankston, Carl L. "The Tai Dam: Refugees from Vietnam and Laos". Passage: A Journal of Refugee Education. 3 (Winter 1987): 30–31.
- Ngô, Việt Trung; Brase, Jim (2006-01-30). "L2/06-041: Unified Tai Script for Unicode" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- Brase, Jim (6 February 2007). "L2/07-039R: Tay Viet Script for Unicode" (PDF). Retrieved 9 August 2014.
- Brase, Jim (2007-02-20). "N3220: Proposal to encode the Tai Viet script in the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- "N3221: Support for the proposal (N3220) to encode the Tai Viet script" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. 2007-03-21. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
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