Ahom script

Abugida used to write the Ahom language Ahom script𑜒𑜑𑜪𑜨'Ahom' in Ahom scriptScript type Abugida Periodlate 14th to 16th century–19th centuryDirectionLeft-to-right LanguagesAhom language, Assamese language (rarely)Related scriptsParent systemsProto-Sinaitic alphabetPhoenician alphabetAramaic alphabetBrāhmīTamil-BrahmiPallava scriptMon–Burmese scriptLik-Tai scriptsAhom scriptSister systemsTai Le, KhamtiISO 15924ISO 15924Ahom (338), ​Ahom, Tai AhomUnicodeUnicode aliasAhomUnicode rangeU+11700–U+1173F The Ahom script or Tai Ahom Script is an abugida that is used to write the Ahom language, a dormant Tai language undergoing revival spoken by the Ahom people till the late 18th-century, who established the Ahom kingdom and ruled the eastern part of the Brahmaputra valley between the 13th and the 18th centuries. The earliest surviving Ahom inscription, the Snake Pillar inscription, dates only to the early 16th century, and scholars generally agree that the script was adapted from a proto-Shan script derived from Burmese between the late 14th and 16th centuries. The old Ahom language today survives in the numerous manuscripts written in this script currently in institut