Fraser alphabet
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The Fraser alphabet, or the Old Lisu Alphabet is an artificial script invented around 1915 by the missionary James O. Fraser, together with Sara Ba Thaw, a Karen preacher from Myanmar, to write the Lisu language. It is a single-case (unicameral) alphabet.
The alphabet uses uppercase letters from the Latin alphabet, and some turned or flipped versions thereof, to write consonants and vowels. Tones and nasalization are written with characters based on punctuation marks.
The Chinese government recognized the alphabet in 1992 as the official script for writing in Lisu.[citation needed]
[edit] External links
- Omniglot entry on Fraser alphabet
- Lord's Prayer in Lisu
- Proposal for encoding the Old Lisu script in the BMP of the UCS
- Issues in orthography development and reform by David Bradley
- sample text from Michael Everson's website
- OMF International (formerly China Inland Mission)
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