Mizo alphabet

Mizo alphabet
*Mizo hawrâwp*
Mizo alphabet; Mizo hawrâwp
Script type	Alphabet
Creator	Frederick William Savidge, James Herbert Lorrain
Languages	Mizo
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician alphabet Greek alphabet Latin alphabet Hunterian transliteration Mizo alphabet; ; ; ; ; ;
Child systems	Hmar alphabet, Mara alphabet, Paite alphabet

The Mizo alphabet (Mizo: Mizo hawrâwp, lit. 'Mizo letters') is the modern writing script for the Mizo language. It uses the Latin script based on the Hunterian transliteration originally developed by F.W. Savidge and J.H. Lorrain.

^ D., Ben Rees (2002). Vehicles of Grace and Hope. William Carey Library. p. 123. ISBN 9780878085057.
^ "The Mizos of Northeast India:Proclaiming the Gospel to their neighbors near and far". missionfrontiers.org. 1 November 1994. Retrieved 26 April 2012. One hundred years ago, in 1894, two Scottish missionaries—James H. Lorrain and Frederick W. Savidge—entered a remote, landlocked, hilly and heavily forested area of Northeast India known today as Mizoram. There they encountered an animistic tribal people of Mongolian descent who had no written language and had never heard of the Gospel.

[R6-1] D., Ben Rees (2002). Vehicles of Grace and Hope. William Carey Library. p. 123. ISBN 9780878085057.

[scott-2] "The Mizos of Northeast India:Proclaiming the Gospel to their neighbors near and far". missionfrontiers.org. 1 November 1994. Retrieved 26 April 2012. One hundred years ago, in 1894, two Scottish missionaries—James H. Lorrain and Frederick W. Savidge—entered a remote, landlocked, hilly and heavily forested area of Northeast India known today as Mizoram. There they encountered an animistic tribal people of Mongolian descent who had no written language and had never heard of the Gospel.

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