Originally written on the bark of the saanchi tree, its religious texts and chronicles were preserved this way. Assamese was not a phonetic language initially, but Hemkosh (the second dictionary of Assamese) introduced Sanskrit based spellings, which have standardized the language today.

Assamese language―Modern Assamese: The modern Assamese period began with the publication of the Bible in Assamese prose by the American Baptist Missionaries in 1819. The currently prevalent Asamiya has its roots in the Sibsagar dialect of Eastern Assam.

'Assamese' is an anglicized form of the actual language name Asamiya.Assamese is a branch of the Indo-Aryan language which evolved in the 7th century AD having its roots from the Sanskrit language. The Assamese language is also been declared as one of the major languages of the Republic of India by the Indian Constitution.

The origin of Assamese language is not clear. Some believe that it originated from Kamarupi Prakrit used in the ancient Kamarupa Kingdom. However it is believed that along with other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Assamese evolved at least before 7th century from the middle Indo-Aryan Magadhi Prakrit, which developed from dialects similar to, but in some ways more …