--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> > Is that in addition to Lao?
>
> Non-gnomic comments are preferable.
>
> Are you proposing a historical link between Tamil and Lao?

No historical link deeper than Pallava. It's just that Lao has also
done away with implicit vowels, so the Lao script is now an
alphabet. I wasn't sure what you meant by 'another region'.

Mind you, the only Pali sentences longer than a few words that I've
seen in the Thai script were also written in an alphabetic sub-
script - the anusvaras and implicit vowels are written out
explicitly using normal consonants and vowels.

Richard.