S'gaw Karen alphabet

S'gaw Karen
ကညီလံာ်ခီၣ်ထံး
S'gaw Karen; ကညီလံာ်ခီၣ်ထံး
Script type	Abugida
Time period	1830–present
Languages	S'gaw Karen language ksw
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic alphabet[a] Phoenician alphabet[a] Aramaic alphabet[a] Brahmi script Pallava script Mon-Burmese S'gaw Karen; ; ; ; ; ;
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Mymr (350), Myanmar (Burmese)
Unicode
Unicode alias	Myanmar
Unicode range	Myanmar-Karen-Sgaw;
	[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.

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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