Ahom script

Origin

The Ahom script was probably derived from the Brahmi script. Ahom is an extinct Tai language spoken by the Ahom people who ruled the Brahmaputra valley in the Indian state of Assam between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Ahom was replaced with Assamese in the early 19th century. Efforts are currently being made to revive the language.

Notable features

Each letter has an inherent vowel [a]. Other vowels can be indicated using diacritics which appear above, below, in front of or after the consonant.

Consonants

Ahom consonants

Vowel diacritics

Ahom vowel diacritics

The images on this page are based on fonts created by Michael Everson (www.evertype.com)

Other syllabic alphabets

Ahom, Balinese, Batak, Bengali, Brahmi, Buhid, Burmese, Cham, Dehong Dai, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Grantha, Gujarati, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hanuno'o, Hmong, Javanese, Kannada, Kharosthi, Khmer, Lanna, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Manpuri, Modi, New Tai Lue, Oriya, Phags-pa, Ranjana, Redjang, Sharda, Siddham, Sinhala, Sorang Sompeng, Sourashtra, Soyombo, Syloti Nagri, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tocharian, Varang Kshiti