Tai languages of Assam, a progress report — Does anything remain of the Tai Ahom language? 1

Seven languages of the Tai family have been spoken in Northeast India in historical times. Six, Ahom, Aiton, Khamti, Nora, Phake and Tairong were exemplified or mentioned by Grierson in the Linguistic Survey of India (1902). The seventh, Khamyang, which according to some may once have been the same as Nora, is still spoken by elderly people in a single village in Tinsukia District, Assam.