A Bhagavata manuscript written in Early Assamese, from Dakhinpat Satra.
Early Assamese (Assamese: পুৰণি অসমীয়া, romanized: Puroni Oxomiya) or Proto-Eastern Kamarupa[1] is an ancestor of the modern Assamese language. It is found in the literature from the 14th century to the end of 16th century[2][3] in Kamata kingdom and rest the Brahmaputra valley of Assam.
^Toulmin 2006
^(Kakati 1941:48)
^"The history of Assamese language, as preserved in literature, may be conveniently divided into three periods:- (1) Early Assamese: from the fourteenth to the end of the sixteenth century." (Kakati 1953:5)
EarlyAssamese (Assamese: পুৰণি অসমীয়া, romanized: Puroni Oxomiya) or Proto-Eastern Kamarupa is an ancestor of the modern Assamese language. It is found...
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of Indic text. The Assamese alphabet (Assamese: অসমীয়া বৰ্ণমালা, romanized: Ôxômiya Bôrnômala) is a writing system of the Assamese language and is a part...
Kakati divides the history of Assamese literature into three prominent eras—EarlyAssamese, Middle Assamese and Modern Assamese—which is generally accepted...
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India. He was well known for translation of entire Mahabharata to EarlyAssamese from Sanskrit for which he is also known as Axom Byas. Bhattadeva Hema...
The Assamese Language Movement (Assamese: /ɔxɔmia bʱaxa andʊlɔn/) refers to a series of political activities demanding the recognition of the Assamese language...
periods, including: EarlyAssamese period (6th to 15th century A.D.), Middle Assamese period (17th to 19th Century A.D.) and, Modern Assamese (late 19th century...
Bhattacharya) is acknowledged as the father of Assamese prose. Though Bhaktiratnakar-katha, the Assamese translation of Sankardev's Sanskrit composition...
Assam (/əˈsæm, æˈsæm/ ə-SAM, a-SAM, Assamese: [ɔ'xɔm] ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak...
produced literary works that are considered to be the first examples of EarlyAssamese. Pratapdhvaj (1305–1325) Dharma Narayan (1325–1330) Durlabh Narayan...
mainly devotional in tone. The origins of Assamese poetry are considered to have taken place in the early 13th century, the Bhagavat Purana is one of...
Indo-Aryan languages, Assamese evolved at least before the 7th century CE from the middle Indo-Aryan Magadhi Prakrit. Assamese is unusual among Eastern...
Assamese, Bengali, and Maithili. Surjapuri has the oblique plural suffixes: sā (hamsā-, tomsā-) and smā (ismā-, usmā-). They are also seen in Early Assamese...
Bhattacharya Goswami, Upendranath (1970). A Study on Kamrupi: a dialect of Assamese. Dept. of Historical Antiquarian Studies. Sarma, Satyendranath (1989)....
different dialects and ancestral forms of Assamese, including EarlyAssamese, Kamrupi dialects and Standard Assamese. These songs have been sung from time...
The Dark Age of the Assamese language is a 37 year long time-frame, from 1836 to 1873, during which Bengali eclipsed the Assamese language. During British...
kingdom. There were written initially in the Ahom Language and later in the Assamese language as well. The Buranjis are an example of historical literature...
Assamese cinema (formerly Jollywood) is the Indian film industry of Assamese language. It is based in Assam, India. The industry was born in 1935 when...
first characterized as Assamese. Golockchandra Goswami in his An introduction to Assamese phonology writes, "in earlyAssamese there seems to be one dominant...
dialects of Assamese, spoken in the Kamrup region. It formerly enjoyed prestige status. It is one of two western dialect groups of the Assamese language...
Rudra Kandali (Assamese: ৰুদ্ৰ কন্দলি ) (B. 1200s) was a litterateur from Kamrup. He was a well known poet of the 12th century and contemporary of the...
Assamese Brahmins are the Brahmins present in the Assamese society. There they promoted learning, Vedic religion, astrology, ayurveda and as well as imparting...
Chandra Kumar Agarwala (Assamese: চন্দ্ৰকুমাৰ আগৰৱালা; 28 November 1867 – 2 March 1938) was a writer, poet, journalist from Assam. He is a pioneer of the...
British ingress into Assam in 1824 during the First Anglo-Burmese War. The Assamese history has been derived from multiple sources. The Ahom kingdom of medieval...
The Asam Sahitya Sabha (Assamese: অসম সাহিত্য সভা, Assamese pronunciation: [/ɔxɔm xaɦittjɔ xɔbʱa/]; lit. 'Literary Society of Assam') is a non Government...
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