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Cyrillic, sure. But Thai? Their alphabet is credited to one พ่อขุนรามคำแหงมหาราช. I've never thought there was any resemblance between Thai symbols and Latin ones, but... judge for yourself, I guess?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_alphabet



Credited is a strong word. AFAIK linguists agree it was copied largely from Khmer (Cambodian).


Would you really mind if I said that the Greek alphabet was credited to one Κάδμος? We know that's not true, but it doesn't change the legend (and indeed, the legend of Cadmus explicitly states that the Greek alphabet was derived from the Phoenician one...).


Both Thai and Khmer are Indic abugida scripts that derive (just like Burmese, Lao, Sinhalese, Balinese, etc.) from Brahmi. Claiming any of these scripts is one person's work is displaying abject ignorance of one of the most significant families of writing in human history.


In your personal opinion, of course




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