S'gaw Karen alphabet

S'gaw Karen
ကညီလံာ်ခီၣ်ထံး
Script type
Period
1830present
LanguagesS'gaw Karen language ksw
Related scripts
Parent systems
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Mymr (350), Myanmar (Burmese)
Unicode
Unicode alias
Myanmar

The S'gaw Karen alphabet (S'gaw Karen: ကညီလံာ်ခီၣ်ထံး) is an abugida used for writing S'gaw Karen. It was created in the early 1830s based on the Burmese script, which derives from either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India. The S'gaw Karen alphabet is also used for the liturgical languages of Pali and Sanskrit.