Editing Isan language (section)

===Khom script===
{{further|Khom Thai script}}
[[File:Bhuddha Sutra in Thai-Khmer Font.JPG|thumb|right|A sutra in the Khom script. This Khmer script was used to write Buddhist, Brahmanic and ritual texts.]] 
The Khom script ({{langx|tts|อักษรขอม}} {{IPA|/ʔǎk.sɔ̌ːn kʰɔ̆ːm/}} ''akson Khom'', cf. Lao ອັກສອນຂອມ, ''Aksone Khom'') was not generally used to write the ancient Lao language of Isan, but was often used to write Pali texts, or Brahmanic rituals often introduced via the Khmer culture. ''[[Khom]]'' is the ancient Tai word for the [[Khmer people]], who once populated and ruled much of the area before Tai migration and the assimilation of the local people to Tai languages. It was generally not used to write the Lao language ''per se'', but was often found in temple inscriptions, used in texts that preserve Brahmanic mantras and ceremonies, local mantras adopted for use in Tai animistic religion and other things usually concerned with Buddhism, Brahmanism or black magic, such as [[yantra]]s and ''[[yantra tattooing|sakyan]]'' tattoos.