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Front Matter
Shan Script
Script of the Shan people of Myanmar and Yunnan, China — one of Southeast Asia's largest ethnic minorities at ~6 million.
Script of the Shan people of Myanmar and Yunnan, China — one of Southeast Asia's largest ethnic minorities at ~6 million. Similar to Burmese but with its own independent system, Shan Buddhist scriptures and court chronicles were recorded in this script. Even amid Myanmar's civil war, Shan language education continues as a symbol of ethnic identity.
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The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
왼쪽에서 오른쪽으로 표기.
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System
Abugida
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Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
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