Tai Tham script

	Tai Tham
Type	Abugida
Spoken languages	Northern Thai, Tai Lü, Khün
Time period	c. 1300–present
Parent systems	Proto-Canaanite alphabet Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Brāhmī Pallava Old Mon Tai Tham; ; ; ; ; ;
ISO 15924	Lana
	Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

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A name board on a Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai written in Lanna characters.

The Tai Tham script, also known as the Lanna script is used for three living languages: Northern Thai (that is, Kam Mu’ang), Tai Lü and Khün. In addition, the Lanna script is also used for Lao Tham (or old Lao) and other dialect variants in Buddhist palm leaves and notebooks. The script is also known as Tham or Yuan script.

The Northern Thai language is a close relative of Thai and member of the Chiang Saeng language family. It is spoken by nearly 6,000,000 people in Northern Thailand and several thousand in Laos of whom few are literate in Lanna script, although there is some resurgent interest in the script among the young. Northern Thai is now written with the Thai alphabet.

There are 670,000 speakers of Tai Lü of whom those born before 1950 are literate in Lanna script.^{[citation needed]} The script has also continued to be taught in the monasteries. There are 120,000 speakers of Khün for which Lanna is the only script.