Kirat Rai
Script details
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| Code | Krai |
| Script type | abugida |
| Region | Indic |
| Status | Current |
| Direction | LTR |
| Baseline | bottom |
| Case | no |
| White space | between words |
| Complex behaviors | |
| OpenType code | krai |
| ISO 15924 Numeric Code / Key | 396 (alphasyllabic) |
Script description
The Kirat Rai script is an abugida used for writing Bantawa, an eastern Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family.
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Bantawa is spoken in Sikkim and Nepal by almost 400,000 people. The script appears to be a modification of Khambu Rai, which was previously used for writing the same language.
Kirat Rai is written with thirty-one consonant letters each containing an inherent /a/ vowel, seven vowel diacritics for changing the inherent vowel, a virama for cancelling the inherent vowel, and a vowel carrier which can be used in combination with the vowel diacritics for writing word-initial vowels.
Languages that use this script
| Language | Writing System Code | Writing System Status | SLDR/CLDR locale | Regional variants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bantawa | bap-Krai | in use | bap-Krai-IN |
Unicode status
In The Unicode Standard, Kirat Rai Script implementation is discussed in Chapter 13 South and Central Asia-II — Other Modern Scripts
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Resources
- ScriptSource page for Kirat Rai - all about scripts, languages, and writing systems
- Wikipedia article on Kirat Rai