Myanmar (Burmese) vs Tai Tham (Lanna)

Writing system comparison · ISO Mymr vs ISO Lana

Myanmar (Burmese) is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian used by 4 languages. Tai Tham (Lanna) is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian used by 2 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

မင်္ဂလာပါ
မြန်မာအက္ခရာ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Myanmar (Burmese) Tai Tham (Lanna)
ISO Code Mymr Lana
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region Southeast Asian Southeast Asian
Characters
Languages 4 2
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Brahmi
Total Speakers ~33M
Introduced 1050 CE

Only in Myanmar (Burmese)

4 languages

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Tai Tham (Lanna)

2 languages

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Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.