The Buddhist Sgaw Karen people, who live in Karen State, Myanmar, have a writing system called Letalanyah. While the most well-known Sgaw Karen writing system is the Christian Sgaw Karen Script created by the Baptist missionary Rev. Jonathan Wade, recently Letalanyah has also gained a significant degree of popularity. In this article, after presenting the phonological system of the dialect of Sgaw Karen spoken around Hpa-an, the capital of Karen State, I will discuss the correspondence between Letalanyah and its phonology. A study of the correspondence of Letalanyah with the phonological system shows it to be a highly systematic writing system.

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