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The minority languages of Laos are also written in the Lao alphabet, and officially it is the only alphabet to write them in Laos, but many speakers of Hmong prefer the Latin Alphabet . The Lao alphabet is very similar to the Thai Alphabet , but Lao's spelling system is simpler and more phonetic, partially due to a spelling reform carried out in the 1960s. CONSONANTS The table below shows the Lao consonant letters with their phonetic value in the ''International Phonetic Alphabet'' ( IPA ), and transcriptions according to the US ''Board on Geographic Names'' and the British ''Permanent Committee on Geographical Names'' (BGN/PCGN), the US Library Of Congress (ALA/LC) and the transcriptions used in the Unicode names of the letters. VOWEL NUCLEI The table below shows the Lao vowel nuclei, combined with the consonant ກ. ''(provisional version)''
LAO IN UNICODE The Unicode range for Lao is U+0E80 through U+0EFF.
Table cells with gray backgrounds represent reserved code points. EXTERNAL LINKS
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