--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Gunnar G�llmo <gunnargallmo@...> wrote:

> Is there a Lao script? I thought the Lao language is
> written with Thai script.

Hi,

From the "Unicode Standard":

The Lao language and script are closely related to Thai. The Unicode Standard encodes the
Lao script in the same relative order as Thai. Lao contains fewer letters than Thai because
by 1960 it was simplified to be fairly phonemic, while Thai maintains many etymological
spellings that are homonyms. Regular word spacing is not used in Lao; spaces separate
phrases or sentences instead. <http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/
ch10.pdf>

South Asian Scripts
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch9.pdf

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