Mon–Burmese script

Mon–Burmese
မွန်မြန်မာအက္ခရာ
Mon–Burmese; မွန်မြန်မာအက္ခရာ
Script type	Abugida
Period	7th century – present
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Burmese, Sanskrit, Pali, Mon, Shan, Rakhine, Jingpho, S'gaw Karen, Western Pwo Karen, Eastern Pwo Karen, Geba Karen, Kayah, Rumai Palaung, Shwe Palaung, Khamti Shan, Aiton, Phake, Pa'O
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Brahmi script Tamil-Brahmi Kadamba or Pallava script Pyu or Old Mon Mon–Burmese; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Child systems	Burmese; Mon; Sgaw Karen; Shan; Tai Tham; Chakma; Ahom; Tai Le; Khamti;
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Mymr (350), Myanmar (Burmese)
Unicode
Unicode alias	Myanmar
Unicode range	U+1000–U+109F Myanmar; U+AA60–U+AA7F Myanmar Extended-A; U+A9E0–U+A9FF Myanmar Extended-B; U+116D0–U+116FF Myanmar Extended-C;

The Mon–Burmese script (Burmese: မွန်မြန်မာအက္ခရာ, listen^ⓘ; Mon: အက္ခရ်မန်ဗၟာ, listen^ⓘ, also called the Mon script and Burmese script) is an abugida that derives from the Pallava Grantha script of southern India and later of Southeast Asia. It is the primary writing system for Burmese, Mon, Shan, Rakhine, Jingpho, and several Karen languages.

The Mon-Burmese script is distinguished from Khmer-derived scripts (e.g., Khmer and Thai) by its basis on Pali orthography (they traditionally lack Sanskrit letters representing the sibilants ⟨ś⟩ and ⟨ṣ⟩ and the vocalic sonorants ⟨ṛ⟩ and ⟨ḷ⟩), the use of a virāma, and the round shape of letters.