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Ahom - LoveToKnow 1911 (899 words) |
 | AHOM, or Aham, a tribe of Shan descent inhabiting the Assam valley, and, prior to the invasion of the Burmese at the commencement of the 19th century, the dominant race in that country. |
| The Ahoms, together with the Shans of Burma and Eastern China and the Siamese, were members of the Tai race. |
| It is a language of the isolating class, in which every word is a monosyllable, and may be employed either as a noun or as a verb according to its context and its position in a sentence. |
| Terralingua -- Discussion Paper #16 (2781 words) |
| Language was not generally studied as a symbol or an institution to understand the functioning of society. |
| New languages have come into being in India as attested from the beginning of her recorded history- the emergence of Pali was already mentioned- and their number increased in the medieval period in the Indo-Aryan family; there was one new language Malayalam- in this period in the Dravidian family. |
| Decentralization of language use in public domains is not limited to the major or regional languages that operate at the level of states but is extended to languages that operate at the level of communities. |
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