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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. 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<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=733264 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr> | 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. 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<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=733264 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr> | ||
<tr><td><h2>Location of Ahom Language Speakers</h2> | <tr><td><h2>Location of Ahom Language Speakers</h2> | ||
http://llmap.org/languages/ | http://llmap.org/languages/aho/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png | ||
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