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== Description == Ahom has characteristics typical of Tai languages, such as: * Subject Verb Object (SVO) word order<ref name="Diller" /><ref name="Blake" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Buragohain|first=Dipima|date=2011|title=Issues of Language Contact and Shift in Tai Ahom |work=International Conference of South East Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 21) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311770517}}</ref> * Tonality<ref name="Diller" /><ref name="Blake" /><ref name="French" /><ref name=":0" /> * Monosyllabic roots<ref name="Diller" /><ref name="Blake" /><ref name="French" /><ref name="Hongladarom">Hongladarom, K. (2005). Thai and Tai Languages. In ''Encyclopedia of linguistics'' (Vol. 2, pp. 1098β1101). New York, NY: Fitzroy Dearborn.</ref> * Each syllable is tonal, and begins with a consonant or consonant cluster. A vowel or diphthong follows. A final consonant may be added, but is not necessary.<ref name="Hongladarom" /> * Lack of inflection<ref name="Diller" /><ref name="French" /> * Analytic syntax<ref name="Blake">Blake, B. J. (1994). Language Classification. In ''The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics'' (Vol. 4, pp. 1952β1957). New York, NY: Pergamon Press Press.</ref> When speaking and writing Ahom, much is dependent upon context and the audience interpretation. Multiple parts of the sentence can be left out; verb and adjectives will remain, but other parts of speech, especially pronouns, can be dropped. Verbs do not have tenses, and nouns do not have plurals. Time periods can be identified by adverbs, strings of verbs, or auxiliaries placed before the verb.<ref name="Hongladarom" /> Ahom, like other Tai languages, uses classifiers to identify categories, and repetitions of words to express idiomatic expressions. However, the expressions, classifiers, pronouns, and other sentence particles vary between the Tai languages descended from Proto-Tai, making Tai languages mutually unintelligible.<ref name="Hongladarom" /> It has its own script, the [[Ahom script]].
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