Ahom

 Ahom

Origin

The Ahom script was probably derived from the Brahmi
script
. Ahom is 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. Ahom was replaced with Assamese in the early 19th
century. Efforts are currently being made to revive the language.

Notable features

  • Each letter has an inherent vowel [a]. Other vowels can
    be indicated using diacritics which appear above, below, in front
    of or after the consonant.

Consonants

Ahom consonants

Vowel diacritics

Ahom vowel diacritics

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Tai-Kaidai languages

Ahom,
Dehong Dai,
Kam,
Lanna,
Lao,
Lue,
Shan,
Tai Dam,
Thai,
Zhuang

Syllabic alphabets / abugidas

Ahom,
Balinese,
Batak,
Bengali,
Brahmi,
Buhid,
Burmese,
Chakma,
Cham,
Dehong Dai,
Devanagari,
Dhives Akuru,
Ethiopic,
Evēla Akuru,
Gondi,
Grantha,
Gujarati,
Gupta,
Gurmukhi (Punjabi),
Hanuno’o,
Hmong,
Javanese,
Kannada,
Kharosthi,
Khmer,
Lanna,
Lao,
Lepcha,
Limbu,
Lontara/Makasar,
Malayalam,
Manpuri,
Modi,
New Tai Lue,
Oriya,
Pallava,
Phags-pa,
Ranjana,
Redjang,
Shan,
Sharda,
Siddham,
Sindhi,
Sinhala,
Sorang Sompeng,
Sourashtra,
Soyombo,
Sundanese,
Syloti Nagri,
Tagalog,
Tagbanwa,
Takri,
Tamil,
Telugu,
Thai,
Tibetan,
Tocharian,
Varang Kshiti

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