Pyu (Tircul)

Southeast Asian

script: Qa48

family: Southeast Asian

type: alphabet

whitespace: unspecified

open_type_tag: none

complex_positioning: unknown

unicode: true

status: Historical

baseline: unspecified

ligatures: unspecified

direction: rtl

The Pyu script was developed in the 5th century in northern Myanmar. It is a Brahmi-based script with two varieties, Pyu Pali and Pyu Tircul.

This script is not currently recognized by the ISO 15924 standard, but is included in ScriptSource for research purposes. If you have any information on this script, please add the information to this site. Your contributions can be a great help in refining and expanding the ISO 15924 standard. The Script Encoding Initiative is working to support the inclusion of this script in the standard, and contributions here will support their efforts.