Kayah Li ꤊꤢꤛꤢ꤭ ꤜꤟꤤ꤬
Script type	Alphabet
Period	1962–present
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Kayah languages
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Kali(357), ​Kayah Li
Unicode
Unicode alias	Kayah Li
Unicode range	U+A900–U+A92F
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TheKayah Li alphabet (Kayah Li:ꤊꤢꤛꤢ꤭ ꤜꤟꤤ꤬) is used to write theKayah languagesEastern Kayah Li andWestern Kayah Li, which are members of Karenic branch of theSino-Tibetan language family. They are also known as Red Karen andKarenni. Eastern Kayah Li is spoken by about 26,000 people, and Western Kayah Li by about 100,000 people, mostly in the Kayah and Karen states ofMyanmar, but also by people living inThailand.

Kayah Li script was devised byHtae Bu Phae in March 1962, in part in response to the appearance of Latin-based orthographies which had appeared after 1950. It is taught in schools in refugee camps in Thailand. Kayah Li’s relation toBrahmic scripts can be seen in its ordering and the shapes of some of its letters, although the shapes of most of them were developed independently. At least nine of its characters bear a relation to characters in theMyanmar script.

Unlike theMyanmar script, the Kayah Li script is an alphabet proper as the consonant letters do not have any subsequent vowel. Four of the vowels are written with separate letter, the others are written using a combination of the letter fora and a diacritic marker. The diacritics can also be used in combination with the letter forô to represent sounds occurring inloanwords. There is also a set of three diacritics that are used to indicate tone. Unlike the vowel diacritics, that are written above the letter, these are written under.

Kayah Li was added to theUnicode Standard in April, 2008 with the release of version 5.1.

The Unicode block for Kayah Li is U+A900–U+A92F:

• Kayah languages
• Karen people

• Page on Omniglot about Kayah Li
• Unicode Kayah Li chart
• GNU FreeFont, a Unicode font with support for Kayah Li
• Different Kayah Li Fonts

• Everson, Michael (2006-03-09)."Proposal for encoding the Kayah Li script in the BMP of the UCS"(PDF).Working Group Document. International Organization for Standardization. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2022-01-19. Retrieved2006-09-02.

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