Thai alphabet - Thai characters (English notation)

Japanese: タイ文字 - タイもじ(英語表記)Thai alphabet
Thai alphabet - Thai characters (English notation)
A unique alphabet used to write Thai. It consists of 44 consonants, 14 vowels, 4 syllabaries, and 4 tone marks. It is written horizontally from left to right, without breaks between words. It originated from the Sukhothai script, which was created by King Ramakhamhaeng of the Sukhothai dynasty at the end of the 13th century, and has evolved to the present day through gradual changes in the number of characters and the shape of the characters. It is descended from South Indian scripts, and is directly based on the Khmer script. The oldest surviving document dates from the end of the 13th century.

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Japanese:
タイ語の表記に用いられる固有のアルファベット。 44個の子音字,14個の母音字,4個の音節文字,4個の声調符号から成る。左から右へ,単語の切れ目なく横書きする。 13世紀末にスコータイ王朝のラーマカムヘーン王の創始したスコータイ文字がもとで,少しずつ字母数や字形を変えて現在にいたる。南インド文字の系統をひき,直接にはクメール文字を基礎にしてできている。現存最古の文献は 13世紀末。

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