Many writing systems of Southeast Asia borrowed this idea and work quite similarly as a result. Here's Burmese, which also writes vowels on all four sides of the consonant they follow:
ကာ - ka ကီ - ki ကူ - ku ကေ - ke ကို - ko ကော - kaw
ကာ - ka ကီ - ki ကူ - ku ကေ - ke ကို - ko ကော - kaw