Ahom script

Ahom script
𑜒𑜑𑜪𑜨
'Ahom' in Ahom script
Script type
Time period
13th century–19th century
DirectionLeft-to-right Edit this on Wikidata
LanguagesAhom language, Assamese language (rarely)[1]
Related scripts
Parent systems
Sister systems
Tai Le, Khamti
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Ahom (338), ​Ahom, Tai Ahom
Unicode
Unicode alias
Ahom
U+11700–U+1173F
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Brahmic scripts
The Brahmi script and its descendants
Northern Brahmic
Southern Brahmic

The Ahom script or Tai Ahom Script is an abugida that is used to write the Ahom language, a dormant Tai language undergoing revival spoken by the Ahom people till the late 18th-century, who established the Ahom kingdom and ruled the eastern part of the Brahmaputra valley between the 13th and the 18th centuries.[4] The old Ahom language today survives in the numerous manuscripts written in this script currently in institutional and private possession.

  1. ^ "SEAlang Library Ahom Lexicography". sealang.net.
  2. ^ Diringer, David (1948). Alphabet a key to the history of mankind. p. 411.
  3. ^ Daniels 2012, p. 170-171.
  4. ^ Diller, A. (1993). Tai Languages. In International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Vol. 4, pp. 128-131). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.