Editing Lao language (section)

===Tai Tham script===
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[[File:Sign of Wat Sri Ubon Rattanaram, Ubon Ratchathani.jpg|thumb|left|An example of the [[Tai Tham alphabet]] formerly used in Laos for religious literature]]
Traditionally, only secular literature was written with the Lao alphabet. Religious literature was often written in ''[[Tai Tham script|Tai Tham]]'', a Mon-based script that is still used for the [[Khün language|Tai Khün]], [[Tai Lue language|Tai Lü]], and formerly for [[Northern Thai language|Kham Mueang]].<ref>[[Michael Everson|Everson, Michael]], Hosken, Martin, & Constable, Peter. (2007). [http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07007r-n3207r-lanna.pdf ''Revised proposal for encoding the Lanna script in the BMP of the UCS''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190614234315/http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07007r-n3207r-lanna.pdf |date=2019-06-14 }}.</ref> The Lao style of this script is known as ''Lao Tham''.<ref>Kourilsky, Grégory & Berment, Vincent. (2005). [http://www.laosoftware.com/download/dekalb_gk-vb.pdf Towards a Computerization of the Lao Tham System of Writing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070802025701/http://www.laosoftware.com/download/dekalb_gk-vb.pdf |date=2007-08-02 }}. In ''First International Conference on Lao Studies''.</ref>