Fraser alphabet
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| Type | |
| Languages | Lisu |
| Creator | James O. Fraser |
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Time period
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c. 1915–present |
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Parent systems
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| Direction | Left-to-right |
| ISO 15924 | Lisu, 399 |
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Unicode alias
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Lisu |
| U+A4D0–U+A4FF | |
The Fraser alphabet or Old Lisu Alphabet is an artificial script invented around 1915 by Sara Ba Thaw, a Karen preacher from Myanmar, and improved by the missionary James O. Fraser, to write the Lisu language. It is a single-case (unicameral) alphabet.
The alphabet uses uppercase letters from the Latin script, and rotated versions thereof, to write consonants and vowels. Tones and nasalization are written with Roman punctuation marks, identical to those found on a typewriter. Like the Indic abugidas, the vowel [a] is not written. However, unlike those scripts, the other vowels are written with full letters.
The Chinese government recognized the alphabet in 1992 as the official script for writing in Lisu.
Note: You may need to download a Lisu capable Unicode font if not all characters display.
For example, ⟨ꓝ⟩ is [tsɑ̄], while ⟨ꓝꓰ⟩ is [tsē].
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