15 Facts About Thai script

Thai script is the abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many other languages spoken in Thailand.

The earliest attestation of the Thai script is the Ram Khamhaeng Inscription dated to 1292, however some scholars question its authenticity.

The Thai script was derived from a cursive form of the Old Khmer Thai script of the time.

Finally, the Thai script wrote vowel marks on the main line, however this innovation fell out of use not long after.

Thai script letters do not have upper- and lower-case forms like Latin letters do.

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Thai script writing uses quotation marks and parentheses, but not square brackets or braces.

Thai script vowel sounds and diphthongs are written using a mixture of vowel symbols on a consonant base.

When Southern Thai is written in Thai script, there are different rules for indicating spoken tone.

Thai script uses a number of modifications to write Sanskrit and related languages.

The vowels used in Thai script are identical to Sanskrit, with the exception of ?, ??, ?, and ??, which are read using their Thai script values, not their Sanskrit values.

None of the Sanskrit plosives are pronounced as the Thai script voiced plosives, so these are not represented in the table.

Likewise, the Thai script phonemes do not differentiate between the retroflex and dental classes, because Thai script has no retroflex consonants.

In Thai script this is written as an open circle above the consonant, known as nikkhahit, from Pali niggahita.

Thai script is an abugida, a symbol needs to be added to indicate that the implied vowel is not to be pronounced.

Thai script was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991 with the release of version 1.