New Tai Lue alphabet

New Tai Lue
New Tai Lue;
Script type	alphabet
Time period	since 1950s
Direction	Left-to-right
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Talu (354), New Tai Lue
Unicode
Unicode alias	New Tai Lue
Unicode range	U+1980–U+19DF
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New Tai Lue script, also known as Simplified Tai Lue, is an alphabet used to write the Tai Lü language. Developed in China in the 1950s, New Tai Lue is based on the traditional Tai Le alphabet developed ca. 1200 AD. The government of China promoted the alphabet for use as a replacement for the older script; teaching the script was not mandatory, however, and as a result many are illiterate in New Thai Lue. In addition, communities in Burma, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam still use the Tai Le alphabet.

Unicode

New Tai Lue script was added to the Unicode Standard in March, 2005 with the release of version 4.1.

In June 2015 New Tai Lue was changed from logical ordering used by most Indic scripts to a visual ordering model as used by the Thai and Lao scripts. This change affected the four vowel letters which appear to the left of the initial consonant.

The Unicode block for New Tai Lue is U+1980–U+19DF:

New Tai Lue^[1]^[2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+198x	ᦀ	ᦁ	ᦂ	ᦃ	ᦄ	ᦅ	ᦆ	ᦇ	ᦈ	ᦉ	ᦊ	ᦋ	ᦌ	ᦍ	ᦎ	ᦏ
U+199x	ᦐ	ᦑ	ᦒ	ᦓ	ᦔ	ᦕ	ᦖ	ᦗ	ᦘ	ᦙ	ᦚ	ᦛ	ᦜ	ᦝ	ᦞ	ᦟ
U+19Ax	ᦠ	ᦡ	ᦢ	ᦣ	ᦤ	ᦥ	ᦦ	ᦧ	ᦨ	ᦩ	ᦪ	ᦫ
U+19Bx	ᦰ	ᦱ	ᦲ	ᦳ	ᦴ	ᦵ	ᦶ	ᦷ	ᦸ	ᦹ	ᦺ	ᦻ	ᦼ	ᦽ	ᦾ	ᦿ
U+19Cx	ᧀ	ᧁ	ᧂ	ᧃ	ᧄ	ᧅ	ᧆ	ᧇ	ᧈ	ᧉ
U+19Dx	᧐	᧑	᧒	᧓	᧔	᧕	᧖	᧗	᧘	᧙	᧚				᧞	᧟
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

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