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Umê script

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Umê (Tibetan: དབུ་མེད་, Wylie: dbu-med, IPA: [umɛ̂]; variant spellings include ume, u-me) is a cursive form of the Tibetan alphabet.

The name means "headless," and is a style of the script used for both calligraphy and shorthand.

A distinctive feature of umê compared to uchen is the absence of the horizontal guide line across the top of the letters. Between syllables, the tseg mark () often appears as a vertical stroke.


There are two main kinds of umê writing:

    Zhuza (Tibetan: འབྲུ་ཙ, Wylie: 'bru-tsa), used for writing documents.
    Bêcug (Tibetan: དཔེ་ཚུགས, Wylie: dpe-tshugs), used for writing scriptures.

There is also a block form of the Tibetan alphabet, containing a horizontal line, referred to as uchen (Tibetan: དབུ་ཅན, Wylie: dbu-can, "with a head").

Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Um%C3%AA_script