Ahom

Script Details

Ahom

Leaf 10 of the Bar Amra manuscript (front side), an Ahom-Assamese lexicon from 1795. The manuscript belongs to Sri Junaram Sangbun Phukan. It is written on sasi bark and contains nearly 3,000 entries. It is believed to be oldest extant dictionary of any Tai-Kadai family language.

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Data

Alternate Names Tai Ahom
ISO 15924 Ahom 338
Type Abugida
Family Indic
Direction LTR
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms Yes
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 63
Earliest Location North East India
Earliest Date 18 CE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Dalby, Andrew 2006 Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages, Ahom, 8 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc