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Thailand / Lan Na: Northern Tai (Lan Na) script. Chiang Mai Chronicle

Thailand / Lan Na: Northern Tai (Lan Na) script. Chiang Mai Chronicle

Northern Thai or Kham Mueang is the language of the Khon Mueang people of Lanna, Thailand. It is a Tai language, closely related to Thai and Lao. Northern Thai has approximately six million speakers, most of whom live in Thailand, with a few thousand in northwestern Laos.

Currently, different scripts are used to write Northern Thai. Northern Thai is traditionally written with the Tai Tham script, which in Northern Thai is called tua mueang or tua tham.

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