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A script that outlived its language.
Also known as: Tai Ahom script
The script used for the Ahom language in Assam, retained for ritual after the language ceased to be spoken.
Wrote the Ahom language in Assam.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Continued in ritual and manuscript use after Ahom ceased to be spoken, so the script preserved a body of text in a language its readers recited without speaking — the inverse of the Meroitic case, where the sounds survive and the meaning does not.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Brahmic letters of a Tai type with rounded forms, written left to right, with a distinctive set of medial consonant signs.