The script was developed from either the Mon script or the Pyu script.

The Shan script is an adaptation of the Mon script via the Burmese script.

The Burmese script became the primary script of the kingdom, replacing Pyu and Mon scripts.

The Lanna adopted the Mon script and religion (later replaced by Sri Lankan Buddhism).

The Khmer script is also distantly related to the Mon script, the ancestor of the modern Burmese script.

On the other hand, Aung-Thwin continues, the latest archaeological evidence dates the Burmese script 58 to 109 years ahead of the Burma Mon script.

The Burmans adapted the Mon script for Burmese following their conquest of Mon territory during Anawrahta's reign.

Mainstream scholarship holds that the Burmese script was developed from the Mon script in 1058, a year after Anawrahta's conquest of the Thaton Kingdom.

The Mon script is considered to be the source of the Burmese script, the earliest evidence of which is dated to 1058, a year after the Thaton conquest.

The Mons adopted the Pallava script and the oldest Mon script was found in a cave in modern Saraburi dating around 550 AD.

Much like the Burmese adopted the Mon script (which also has Indic origins), the Thais adopted and modified the Khmer script to create their own writing system.

The Lao religious script is written in the Tua Tham script, based on Mon scripts and still used in temples in Laos and Isan.

Another key development according to traditional scholarship was the emergence of the Burmese script, believed to have been derived from the Mon script in 1058, one year after the conquest of Thaton.

Other local scripts, most prominently Khmer, Burmese, and in modern times Thai (since 1893), Devanāgarī and Mon script (Mon State, Burma) have been used to record Pali.

It is written in a script consisting of circular and semi-circular letters, which were adapted from the Mon script, which in turn was developed from a southern Indian script in the 8th century.

The earliest Burma Mon script (at Prome) is dated to 1093 while the earliest Burmese script (the copper-gilt umbrella inscription of the Mahabodhi Temple) is dated to 1035.

But recent research by Aung-Thwin argues that the Burmese script may instead have been derived from the Pyu script in the 10th century, and that the Burmese script was the parent of the Burma Mon script.

He argues that the Mon script found in Burma was sufficiently different from the older Mon script found in the Mon homelands of Dvaravati or Haripunjaya (in present-day Thailand) with no archaeological evidence to prove any linkage between the two.