Fraser alphabet
The Fraser alphabet was developed for the Lisu language by Sara Ba Thaw, a Karen missionary from Burma , with the help of the British Christian missionary James O. Fraser .
Among the Lisu, the alphabet is called "Old Lisu Script". The exact date of completion cannot be determined, but is not before 1915. In the mid-1930s, a New Testament was printed in this font. In 2007, around 200,000 Lisu in China used this alphabet.
The alphabet consists of the well-known Latin capital letters as well as Latin capital letters rotated 180 degrees. At the time this alphabet was developed, this had the advantage that the existing letters could be used for printing .
Character encoding
The coding of the Fraser alphabet was standardized in the Unicode block Lisu .
Web links
- Detailed system description of the Fraser alphabet - in English
- Brief overview of the Fraser alphabet - in English
- PDF of the Unicode Consortium - in English
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3317.pdf
- ↑ Eileen Crossman: James Fraser, the mountaineer of God Translated from English by Kirsten Dollen, 2nd edition. Christian literature distribution, Bielefeld 1996, ISBN 3-89397-332-X , p. 80
- ↑ Eileen Crossman: James Fraser, the mountain climber of God Translated from English by Kirsten Dollen, 2nd edition. Christian literature distribution, Bielefeld 1996, ISBN 3-89397-332-X , pp. 237–239
- ↑ http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3317.pdf