Assamese people Assam" by Europeans till 1821, when the Ahom kingdom became part of the Burmese Empire. After Assam became part of British India, the newly constituted province came to be known by its new anglicised name Assam after its largest constituent, and the name "Assamese / Asamiya" came to be associated with the Assamese language which was erstwhile known as Kamrupi. According to Yasmin Saikia, "the group that now identifies as Tai–Ahom were historically seen as the Assamese people. However, the term ethnic Assamese is now associated by the Indian government at Delhi with the Assamese speaking Indo–Aryan, Tibeto-Burman and Austric
Assamese rô Assamese rô In the Assamese alphabet, rô ( ) is the twenty-seventh consonant, or in other terms, twenty-seventh letter of the "byônzônbôrnômala" (). "Rô" has an inherent vowel in it, which is "ô", as in most other Assamese consonants. But, many a times, "ô" is to be replaced by another vowel or "swôrôbôrnô". In such a case, the vowels change their forms. As examples: Given below are examples of words starting with . When is added before another consonant to form a conjunct, turns into "reph". In other words, "reph" indicates that there is a "r" sound before the letter