consonants with the same sounds (e.g. ? and ? , ? and ? ). Both high and low consonants are needed to produce full five (or six) tones of Lao.

Such design also exists in Lao. Sonorants ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? are originally low consonants, but when they're preceded by ?, they become high consonants.

The older versions of the script also included special forms for combinations of ? + ? , ? + ? , and ? + ? . In addition, consonant clusters that had the second component of ? or ? were written with a special form ?? underneath the consonant.

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