Ahom script

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The Ahom script is an abugida historically used to write the Tai Ahom language of the Ahom people in what is now Assam, India.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Ahom script canonical 3
Ahom Unicode block 1
Tai-Ahom script 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf abugida
associatedEthnicity Ahom
linked to: Tai-Ahom people
associatedLanguage Tai Ahom language
belongsTo Tai script family
country India
culturalContext Ahom kingdom administration
linked to: Ahom kingdom

Ahom religious practices
derivedFrom Brahmi script
geographicContext Upper Brahmaputra valley
linked to: Brahmaputra Valley
hasCharacterCategory digits
letters
marks
punctuation
hasConsonantLetters true
hasDigitalEncoding Unicode standard
linked to: Unicode Standard
hasIndependentVowelLetters true
hasISO15924Code Ahom
hasUnicodeBlock Ahom
hasViramaLikeSign true
hasVowelDiacritics true
historicalUsage administrative documents
chronicles
religious texts
influencedBy other Brahmic-derived Tai scripts
ISO15924Number 338
region Northeast India
relatedScript New Tai Lue script
Tai Tham script
revivalEfforts yes
scriptFamily Brahmic scripts
scriptScope historical and liturgical
scriptType alphasyllabary
scriptUsageStatus limited liturgical use
status historical script
timePeriod 13th century to 18th century
UnicodeBlockRange U+11700–U+1173F
UnicodeVersionIntroduced Unicode 8.0
usedBy Ahom people
linked to: Tai-Ahom people
usedFor Buranji chronicles
ritual manuscripts
writing Tai Ahom language
usedIn Assam
India
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystemOf Ahom kingdom
writingSystemStatus not used for everyday writing

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ahom kingdom writingSystem Ahom script
Ahom language script Ahom script
Ahom language hasScriptUnicodeBlock Ahom Unicode block
linked to: Ahom script
Ahom chronicles (Buranjis) scriptUsed Tai-Ahom script
linked to: Ahom script