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In early 13th century, Sukaphaa, a Shan (Mong Mao) prince began his journey with some of his followers and crossed Patkai hills. Then he reached eastern part of that time Kamarupa kingdom, present day eastern part of Brahmaputra valley. He moved from place to place, searching for a seat. He decided not to attack the Moran and Borahi but befriend them instead. Sukaphaa finally established his capital at Charaideo near present-day Sivasagar in 1253 and began the task of state formation. This state later on known as Ahom kingdom, present day Upper Assam. The language spoken by this group of people were known as Tai and subsequently the script they used to write were known as Tai script. This group produced scriptures on papers produced from Agar wood or sachi paper. The page shown in right is a page from a volume of yesteryear Tai scripture presurved in the Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies (DHAS), Pan Bazaar, Guwahati 781001 Assam. ==References== 〔 * Brown, Rev. N. 1837. Alphabets of the Tai Language. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 6:17-21 * Terwiel, B.J. 1988. Reading a dead language: Tai Ahom and the Dictionaries. D. Bradley, E.J.A. Henderson & M. Mazaudon (eds.), Prosodic Analysis and Asian Linguistics - to Honour R.K. Spriggs. Canberra: Australian National University * Terwiel, B.J. & Ranoo Wichasin. 1992. Tai Ahoms and the Stars; Three Ritual Texts to Ward off Danger. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University SEAP * Barua, B. 1975. A note on the Tai Ahom Language. Journal of the Department of Assamese. 1:60-1 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tai alphabet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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