Probably Ahom-script development is a team-work, but proposer Michael Everson
does not sound like a Ahom citizen.
This standard is UNICODE standard http://www.unicode.org/pending/pending.html
It is incorrect to call this script-set Ahom-script.
Instead, it should be appropriate to call it Tai-Script.
Tai-Ahom is a branch of Ahom.
Ahom as "অসম" existed even before Tai immigration through
Burma.
The origin Kamrupi phrase
"মলুক অসম" or "অসম
মলুক" (found in Kamrupi scripture)
used for a branch of Dravidiya tribe (dark-skinned small body-frame short)
eventually "অসম" here transposed to
"আহোম".
Look at phonetic integration over time
"হুনোর আহোম" instead of
"শনর অসম"
Just look at Hemkosh to see more examples
how "স" "শ" and "ষ" got transposed to "হ" for for
hundreds of words!
Compare Hemkosh words with equivalent Kamrupi words in yesteryear Kamrupi
scripture.
I think it is good sign they are talking for standards to write
"আহোমীযা" or Assamese.
(Note, first & several issues of Arunodoy were printed in Kamrupi using Kamrupi
grammar.)
Rabin
--- Dilip and Dil Deka wrote:
Just one question - how did the Ahom alphabet get sanskritized?
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friends
any idea if AHOM script shown in link below is the script from Ahom Land, i.e.,
current UPPER ASSAM.
http://www.evertype.com/standards/tai/ahom.pdf
AHOM Proposal for the Universal Character Set
by Michael Everson
