Lao alphabet
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 80 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5110-6250-1
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Lao alphabet, Aksone Lao (Lao: ????????? ), is the main script used to write the Lao language and other minority languages in Laos. It is ultimately of Indic origin, the alphabet includes 27 consonants (????????? ), 7 consonantal ligatures (?????????????? ), 33 vowels (??? ) (some based on combinations of symbols), and 4 tone marks (???????? ). According to Article LXXV of Constitution of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, the Lao alphabet is the official script to the official language, but is also used to transcribe minority languages in the country, but some minority language speakers continue to use their traditional writing systems while the Hmong have adopted the Roman Alphabet. An older version of the script was also used by the multi-ethnic Thai Isan, when they were under the rule of the Lao kingdom, until its use was banned and supplemented with the Thai alphabet in 1871, although the region remained distant culturally and...