A beautiful writing system

For those of you who, inspired by the image in the post below, might have become interested in the Burmese writing system, here are some of its most notable features:

• Type of writing system: syllabic alphabet - each letter has an inherent vowel [a]. Other vowels sounds are indicated using separate letters or diacritics which appear above, below, in front of, after or around the consonant.
• The rounded appearance of letters is a result of the use of palm leaves as the traditional writing material. Straight lines would have torn the leaves. The Burmese name for the script is ca-lonh 'round script'.
• Burmese is a tonal language with three main tones (high, low and creaky) and two other tones (stopped and reduced). The tones are indicates in writing using diacritics or special letters.

The information above was obtained in Omniglot, a very interesting site about writing systems & languages of the world. You can check it here.

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