S'gaw Karen alphabet

S'gaw Karen
ကညီလံာ်ခီၣ်ထံး
Script type
Time period
1830–present
LanguagesS'gaw Karen language ksw
Related scripts
Parent systems
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Mymr (350), ​Myanmar (Burmese)
Unicode
Unicode alias
Myanmar
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The S'gaw Karen alphabet (S'gaw Karen: ကညီလံာ်ခီၣ်ထံး) is an abugida used for writing Karen. It was derived from the Burmese script in the early 19th century, and ultimately from either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India. The S'gaw Karen alphabet is also used for the liturgical languages of Pali and Sanskrit.


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