Ahom script
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| Ahom script | ||
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| Type | Abugida | |
| Spoken languages | Ahom language | |
| Time period | 13th century–19th century | |
| Parent systems | Proto-Canaanite alphabet(disputed) → Phoenician alphabet(disputed) → Aramaic alphabet(disputed) → Brāhmī → Ahom script |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Ahom script is an abugida that was used to write the Ahom language, an extinct Tai language spoken by the Ahom people who ruled the Brahmaputra valley in the Indian state of Assam between the 13th and the 18th centuries.
The Ahom script was probably derived from the Brahmi script, the root of almost all the Indic and Southeast Asian abugidas.
Like most abugidas, each letter has an inherent vowel of /a/. Other vowels are indicated by using diacritics, which can appear above, below, to the left, or to the right of the consonant.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Entry on Ahom at Omniglot.com -- A guide to writing systems
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