- ISO 15924
Krai- Family
- South Asian
- Type
- abugida
- Direction
- LTR (left-to-right)
- Baseline
- bottom
- Word separation
- between words
- Ligatures
- unspecified
- Status
- Current
- Unicode
- true
- Diacritics
- false
- Contextual forms
- false
The Kirat Rai script is an abugida used for writing Bantawa, an eastern Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family.
Bantawa is spoken in Sikkim and Nepal by almost 400,000 people. The script appears to be a modification of Khambu Rai, which was previously used for writing the same language.
Kirat Rai is written with thirty-one consonant letters each containing an inherent /a/ vowel, seven vowel diacritics for changing the inherent vowel, a virama for cancelling the inherent vowel, and a vowel carrier which can be used in combination with the vowel diacritics for writing word-initial vowels.