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One script for many varieties.
Also known as: Tangsa alphabet
The script created for the Tangsa varieties of north-east India and Myanmar.
Writes the Tangsa language varieties of north-east India and Myanmar.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Designed to serve a cluster of varieties that are not mutually intelligible throughout, so the script had to be acceptable to speakers who do not fully understand one another — a political constraint on a technical design.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
An alphabet of angular letters with tone marked by separate letters, devised to serve a group of closely related but distinct varieties.