Editing Ahom language (section)

{{short description|Dead Southwestern Tai language of Northeast India}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Ahom
| altname          = Tai-Ahom<ref name="Multitree"/>
| nativename       = {{transliteration|aho|khwám tái ahüm}}(𑜁𑜪𑜨 𑜄𑜩 𑜒𑜑𑜪𑜨) 
| revived          = Teaching under educational institutions such as [[Dibrugarh University]] and [[AHSEC]]<ref name="dibru.ac.in">{{cite web |title=Centre for Studies in Languages - Dibrugarh University |url=http://dibru.ac.in/schools-of-studies/humanities-and-social-science/centre-for-studies-in-languages |website=dibru.ac.in |language=en-gb}}</ref>
| era = 
| script           = [[Ahom script]]
| image            = Shukla Ahom.svg
| imagecaption     = The word "Ahom" in [[Ahom script]]
| imagescale       = 0.6
| states           = [[India]]
| region           = [[Assam]]
| ethnicity        = [[Ahom people]]
| extinct          = 18th or 19th century AD
| speakers2        = used in religious chants and literary materials
| ref              = e18
| familycolor      = Kradai
| fam2             = [[Tai languages|Tai]]
| fam3             = [[Southwestern Tai languages|Southwestern]] (Thai)
| fam4             = Northwestern
| iso3             = aho
| glotto           = ahom1240
| glottorefname    = Ahom
| map              = Taikadai-en1.png
| mapcaption       = '''Tai languages''' Ahom language belongs to Southwestern Tai in north east India
| map2             = Lang Status 01-EX.svg
| mapcaption2      = {{center|{{small|Ahom is classified as Extinct language by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}<ref>{{Cite UNESCO Atlas|pages=43–47}}</ref>}}
}}
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'''Ahom''' or '''Tai-Ahom'''<ref name="Multitree">{{cite web|title=Ahom|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 September 2012|publisher=[[Linguist List|LINGUIST List]]|access-date=23 December 2024|url=http://multitree.org/codes/aho.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918114402/http://multitree.org/codes/aho.html}}</ref> (Ahom:𑜁𑜪𑜨 𑜄𑜩 𑜒𑜑𑜪𑜨 or 𑜁𑜨𑜉𑜫 𑜄𑜩 𑜒𑜑𑜪𑜨; {{transliteration|aho|khwám tái ahüm}}) is a [[dormant language|dormant]],<ref>"Linguists and historians are generally united in the view that the Ahom language has been dead for about two hundred years, and that all Ahom use Assamese as their mother tongue." {{harvcol|Terwiel|1996|p=283}}</ref> [[Southwestern Tai languages|Southwestern Tai language]] formerly spoken by the [[Ahom people]]. It's currently undergoing a revival and mainly used in religious and educational purposes.<ref>{{harvcol|Marwah|2020|p=76}}</ref>   Ahom language was the state language of [[Ahom kingdom]]. It was relatively free of both [[Mon-Khmer languages|Mon-Khmer]] and [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] influences and has a written tradition dating back to the 13th century.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

The Ahom people established the [[Ahom kingdom]] and ruled parts of the [[Brahmaputra]] river valley in the present day [[India]]n state of [[Assam]] between the 13th and the 18th centuries. The language was the court language of the kingdom, until it began to be replaced by the [[Assamese language]] in the 17th century. Since the early 18th century, there have been no native speakers of the language, though extensive manuscripts in the language still exist today. The tonal system of the language is entirely lost. The language was only partially known by a small group of traditional priests of the [[Ahom religion]], and it was being used only for ceremonial or ritualistic purposes.

There has been efforts to revive the language in recent times.  A reconstructed version is taught in various educational institutions in [[Assam]] by [[AHSEC]] and [[Dibrugarh University]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Assam Higher Secondary Education Council official Notification |url=https://ahsec.assam.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Notification-Regarding-New-Elective-Subject-Tai-Language-from-the-academic-session-2023-24.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwirm8_1t9mDAxXGUGwGHXQFAxQQFnoECCIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0vUtpiy_ZaIY89aU131O7n|website= |language=en}}</ref><ref name="dibru.ac.in">{{cite web |title=Centre for Studies in Languages - Dibrugarh University |url=http://dibru.ac.in/schools-of-studies/humanities-and-social-science/centre-for-studies-in-languages |website=dibru.ac.in |language=en-gb}}</ref>