Ahomadj.n.

1834 Calcutta Christian Observer Aug. 400 If Mr. Hough can make little of the Ahom book I sent you, through his knowledge of Burman, I would suggest his trying to decypher it through the Tai language.

1837 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 6 i. 18 The Ahom is a branch of the Tai language, which is spoken, with some variations, by the Khamtis, the Shyáns, the Láos, and the Siamese.

1883 Rep. Census of Assam 1881 vi. 84 The small vocabulary of Ahom words given in Colonel Dalton's work.

1903 G. A. Grierson Lang. India 31 One of the few Ahom words used at the present day is buranji, ‘the store of instruction for the ignorant’, which they called history.

2002 S. Morey in D. Bradley & M. Bradley Lang. Endangerm. & Lang. Maintenance viii. 101 Those who have..the ability to understand traditional Ahom texts..are those who speak one of the other Tai languages as a mother tongue.

1848 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 17 i. 475 The tomb of the older Ahom Rajahs previous to the reign of Chukunpha,..A.D. 1695.

1883 Rep. Census of Assam 1881 vi. 83 The grand seat of the Ahom people..was..the country on the borders of Sibsagar and southern Lakhimpur.

1904 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. Apr. 182 The MS. from which the present text is reproduced was found in the possession of a Deodhai (or member of an Ahom priestly family) named Chakradhar Barua.

1989 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 125/2 Captain T. Welsh..restored peace and was recalled despite the protests of the Ahom king.

2004 B. De in R. Samāddāra Peace Stud. ii. x. 210 Even today in Ahom religious functions, a language is invoked which only their priests understand.

1834 Calcutta Christian Observer Aug. 400 The Ahoms attained power and became converts to Brahminism.

1837 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 6 i. 18 Among the Ahoms, or the portion of the Tai race inhabiting Assám, the language is nearly extinct.

1927 Blackwood's Mag. June 815/2 In this way the Ahoms and the Kacharis, once prosperous dwellers in the land, became effete.

2002 S. Morey in D. Bradley & M. Bradley Lang. Endangerm. & Lang. Maintenance viii. 100 Today the Ahoms number around one million, consisting largely of rural landowners.

1870 Ethnogr. Atlas (Monosyllabic Languages) at Ahom Ahom, an ancient Siamese dialect, is not marked on the Map, because extinct, or only preserved in the books of the Assamese.

1893 J. Jardine in W. Tandy tr. V. Sangermano Descr. Burmese Empire (ed. 2) 290 The next polytonic class [of languages] is the Taic-Shan, sub-divided by Mr. Eales as follows: Northern,..Ahom (near Assam—extinct).

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet II. vii. 415 Ahom, a Shan dialect,..lingered on, however, as a kind of sacred language.

2002 S. Morey in D. Bradley & M. Bradley Lang. Endangerm. & Lang. Maintenance 99 Ahom is a dead language, claimed to be undergoing a revival.