Even by itself Assamese has been very insufficiently examined. The first grammatical notice of Assamese was taken by Rev. N. Brown, in his Grammatical Notes on Assamese Language, 1848. These notes were primarily meant for the American Baptist Missionaries, and were accordingly short. Prof. Nicholl summarised the main features of spoken Assam-ese in his work Manual of the Bengali language including Assamese Grammar, in 1894. Two native grammarians, Hem Chandra Barua and Satyanatha Bara, wrote two grammars in Assamese; but good as these vernacular grammars are in their own way, they are elementary and meant for school boys, and are scarcely of any use to advanced students of historical grammar. In 1936, as these pages were being made ready for the press, was published Mr. Kaliram Medhi's Asamiya Vya karaņa āru Bhāşätatva, written in Assamese. It is an ambitious work and is supposed to be written on historical principles. But though it contains a mass of early Assamese forms, the mode of approach to the subject is far from scientific and it does not place this publication under any obligation.
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