Ahom script

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Ahom script

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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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.

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