In addition, communities in Burma, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam still use the Tai Tham alphabet.

Similar to the Thai and Lao scripts, consonants come in pairs to denote two tonal registers (high and low).

In the table below, '◌' represents a consonant and is used to indicate the position of the various vowels: In some words, the symbol ᦰ is just used for distinguishing homonyms or displaying onomatopoeiae.

New Tai Lue has two tone marks which are written at the end of a syllable: ᧈ and ᧉ.

[4] New Tai Lue script was added to the Unicode Standard in March, 2005 with the release of version 4.1.