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The Ahom language is a nearly extinct Tai language spoken by the Ahom people who ruled the Brahmaputra river valley in the
present day Indian state of Assam between the 13th and the 18th centuries. The language is classified in a Northwestern subgrouping
of Southwestern Tai owing to close affinities with Shan, Khamti and, more distantly, Thai. As the Ahom rulers of the area
assimilated to the more numerous Assamese, the Indo-Aryan Assamese language gradually replaced Ahom as a spoken language,
a process which became complete during the 19th century. As of 2000, Ahom was only known by approximately 200 priests of the
traditional Ahom religion and only used for ceremonial or ritualistic purposes. Although the language is no longer spoken,
the exhaustive 1795 Ahom-Assamese lexicon known as the Bar Amra preserves the form of the language that was spoken during
the Ahom Kingdom. Ahom is an important language in Tai studies. It was relatively free of both Mon-Khmer and Indo-Aryan influences
and has a written tradition dating back to the 13th century. |
Names (more)[br] Ahomeg[de] Ahom [en] Ahom language [gl] Lingua ahom [hr] Ahom jezik [pl] Język ahom [es] Idioma ahom [th] ภาษาอาหม |
Language type : Extinct
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : ahoLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ahohttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:aho More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: ahoFreebase ISO 639-3 : aho GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |