What is assamese language?
Assamese is a language spoken by the people of Assam or Asom, a state in North East India Recently there have been some discussions on the relationships between Assamese and Bengali languages. Here are some notes on that topic. 1. Assamese was banished from schools and courts in Assam in 1836. It was reintroduced in 1882. (source: Assamese Literature by Birinchi Kumar Barua). 2. The American Missionaries along with many Assamese educated people convinced the British that Assamese is a sibling of Bengali. The Missionaries had published a lot of books starting from 1813 (the first Assamese printed book was a translation of the Bible done by Atmaram Sarma of Koliabor in 1813; published by the Serampore (Calcutta) English Missionary Press) onwards. 3. There is a footnote in “Assamese: Its Formation and Development” by Banikanta Kakati, Lawyer’s Book Stall, 1972. The footnote was inserted by Golokchandra Goswami, D.Phil. (p 7). The footnote is reproduced below: Most probably, Dr. Nathan Bro
