Early Assamese

Early Assamese
Early Assamese
Region	Assam
Era	14th-16th centuries
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Bengali-Assamese Early Assamese; ; ; ; ;
Early form	Kāmarūpī Apabhraṃśa
Dialects	Brajawali;
Writing system	Eastern Nagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Early Assamese 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)