Writing and Printing

Ahom script

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 institutional and private possession. Dibrugarh University has a 2 Years Post Graduate Diploma course in Tai language. The Centre for South East Asian Studies, Gauhati University on 27 April, 2026 launched a 6-momths Certificate Course in Tai-Ahom language and Medieval Manuscriptology.

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• ▸Junagadh rock inscription of Rudradaman
• ▸Dasymalla
• ▸History of Panama

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