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Lao script on a sign at Wat That Luang, Vientiane.

In 2019, the extended Indic characters were added to Unicode 12.

While the Buddhist Institute published books that utilised these extended Indic characters, they did not see widespread usage, and fell out of usage by 1975. In the 1930s, Maha Sila Viravong, a Buddhist scholar, backed by the Buddhist Institute in Vientiane and the Buddhist Academic Council, added an additional set of Lao characters to support Pali and Sanskrit, thereby filling the missing gaps in the existing script. However, this is less apparent today because the Lao People's Revolutionary Party has simplified the spelling to be phonemic and omitted extra letters used to write words of Pali-Sanskrit origin. Although the Thai script continued to evolve, both scripts still bear a resemblance. It has changed little since its inception and continued use in the Lao-speaking regions of modern-day Laos and Isan. The Lao script was slowly standardized in the Mekong River valley after the various Tai principalities of the region were merged under Lan Xang in the 14th century. Both Khmer and Mon were ultimately derived from the Pallava script of South India. The Lao script derived locally from the Khmer script of Angkor with additional influence from the Mon script. The letters have no majuscule or minuscule (upper- and lowercase) differentiation. Spaces for separating words and punctuation were traditionally not used, but space is used and functions in place of a comma or period. Vowels can be written above, below, in front of, or behind consonants, with some vowel combinations written before, over, and after. However, Lao has fewer characters and is formed in a more curvilinear fashion than Thai. Akson Lao is a sister system to the Thai script, with which it shares many similarities and roots. The Lao abugida was adapted from the Khmer script, which itself was derived from the Pallava script, a variant of the Grantha script descended from the Brāhmī script, which was used in southern India and South East Asia during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. Its earlier form, the Tai Noi script, was also used to write the Isan language, but was replaced by the Thai script.

Lao script or Akson Lao (Lao: ອັກສອນລາວ ) is the primary script used to write the Lao language and other minority languages in Laos.

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