Thai
อักษรไทยSample Characters
First 48 characters from Thai (U+0E01–U+0E5B)
About Thai
The Thai script is an abugida used to write the Thai language and several minority languages of Thailand. Created in 1283 CE by King Ramkhamhaeng, it descends from the Khmer script, which in turn derived from the ancient Brahmi script of India.
Thai script is written left-to-right with no spaces between words. It has 44 consonants, 15 vowel symbols, and four tone marks. Like other Southeast Asian scripts, Thai uses an inherent vowel system and complex vowel and tone indicators placed above, below, before, after, or around the consonant.
Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.
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Key Facts
- ISO Code
- Thai
- ISO Number
- 352
- Script Type
- Abugida
- Direction
- Left-to-right
- Status
- Living
- Region
- Southeast Asian
- Characters
- 86
- Introduced
- 1283 CE
- Languages
- 7
- Total Speakers
- ~60M
Unicode Ranges
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ThaiU+0E01–U+0E5B
Script Properties
- Has Case
- No
- Cursive
- No
- Vowels
- inherent