Editing Fraser script (section)

{{Short description|Alphabetic writing system}}
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{{Infobox writing system
|name=Fraser
|type=[[Abugida]]
|time=c. 1915&ndash;present
|languages=[[Lisu language|Lisu]]
|fam1=[[Phoenician script]]
|fam2=[[Greek script]]
|fam3=[[Latin script]]
|sample=Fraser text.png
|imagesize=256
|creator=[[James O. Fraser]]
|unicode=[https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA4D0.pdf U+A4D0–U+A4FF], [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U11FB0.pdf U+11FB0–U+11FBF]
|iso15924=Lisu
}}

The '''Fraser''' or '''Old Lisu script''' is an [[constructed script|artificial]] [[abugida]] for the [[Lisu language]] invented around 1915 by Sara Ba Thaw, a [[Karen people|Karen]] preacher from [[Myanmar]], and improved by the [[missionary]] [[James O. Fraser]]. It is a single-[[letter case|case]] ([[Unicase|unicameral]]) [[alphabet]]. It was also used for the [[Naxi language]], e.g. in the 1932 Naxi Gospel of Mark,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://socidoc.com/queue/m-ko-te-dna-hsi-mark-1932-_5a02b933d64ab2e82e1e3176_pdf?queue_id=5a1b047ed64ab2e8253d9734|title=Naxi Gospel of Mark 1932|access-date=2017-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201234029/https://socidoc.com/queue/m-ko-te-dna-hsi-mark-1932-_5a02b933d64ab2e82e1e3176_pdf?queue_id=5a1b047ed64ab2e8253d9734|archive-date=2017-12-01|url-status=dead}}</ref> and used in the Zaiwa or [[Zaiwa language|Atsi language]], e.g. in the 1938 Atsi Gospel of Mark.

The script uses uppercase letters from the [[Latin script]] (except for the letter [[Q]]) and rotated versions thereof (except for the letters [[M]], [[Q]] and [[W]]) to write [[consonant]]s and [[vowel]]s. [[Tonal language|Tones]] and [[nasalization]] are written with Roman [[punctuation]] marks, identical to those found on a typewriter. Like the Indic [[abugida]]s, the vowel {{IPA|[a]}} is not written. However, unlike those scripts, the other vowels are written with full letters.

The local Chinese government in [[Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture|Nujiang]] ''de facto'' recognized the script in 1992 as the [[official script]] for writing in Lisu, although other Lisu autonomous territories continue to use the New Lisu (Latin script) for official matters.{{Citation needed|date=November 2007}}