script: Qaaf
family: Southeast Asian
type: abugida
whitespace: unspecified
open_type_tag: none
complex_positioning: unknown
unicode: true
status: Current
baseline: bottom
ligatures: unspecified
direction: ltr

The Duota script is used by the Khmu people in Jinghong, Laos, for writing their language. The script is also used in China, where the Khmu population is relatively small and isolated. The language is also spoken in other parts of Laos, where it is written in the Laotian script, and in Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand, where it is written in the Latin script. Speakers in Mengla, on the China/Laos border do not apply any script to the language. There have been experimental attempts in Thailand to apply the Thai script to Khmu phonology.

This script is not currently recognized by  ISO 15924, but is included in ScriptSource for research purposes. If you have any information on this script, please add the information to the site. Your contributions can be a great help in refining and expanding the ISO 15924 standard.