Editing Ahom language (section)

==Classification==
Tai-Ahom is classified in a Northwestern subgrouping of [[Southwestern Tai languages|Southwestern Tai]] owing to close affinities with [[Shan language|Shan]], [[Khamti language|Khamti]] and, more distantly, [[Thai language|Thai]]. The immediate parent language from which Ahom is descended has been reconstructed as [[Proto-Tai language|Proto-Tai]], a language from 2000 years ago,<ref name="French">French, M. A. (1994). Tai Languages. In ''The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics'' (Vol. 4, pp. 4520–4521). New York, NY: Pergamon Press Press.</ref><ref name="Hongladarom" /> in the [[Kra–Dai languages|Kra–Dai]] family (unrelated to Chinese, but possibly related to the [[Austronesian languages]]),<ref name="Blake" /> within the (proposed but debated) subgroup of [[Kam–Tai languages|Kam–Tai]],<ref name="Hongladarom" /> although some say that Tai languages are a discrete family, and are not part of Kra–Dai.<ref name="French" /> Ahom is distinct from but closely related to [[Aiton language|Aiton]],{{sfn|Gogoi|Morey|Pittayaporn|2020|pp=14–42}} which is still spoken in [[Assam]] to this day.