Re: Northern Thai Variants

John Cowan <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:44:58 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.languages
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:26 PM Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham=
[email protected]> wrote:

One difference between the two Thai script spellings is the degree of
> Sanskritisation of the spellings.  The 'nod-Thai-phonetic' is more
> heavily Sanskritised, with 'dharma' being ธรรม (the usual Thai form) as
> opposed to the Pali-derived ธัมม์, which is no longer allowed for Thai
> by the Royal Institute dictionary, though it retains the longer form
> ธัมมะ).
>

Perhaps use "dharma" and "dhamma" as the tags?  Weird, but probably unique.

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