Assamese literature its roots in the Eastern dialect. The modern Assamese period began with the publication of the Bible in Assamese prose by the American Baptist missionaries in 1819. The currently prevalent standard Asamiya has its roots in the Sibsagar dialect of Eastern Assam. As mentioned in Bani Kanta Kakati's "Assamese, its Formation and Development" (1941, Published by Sree Khagendra Narayan Dutta Baruah, LBS Publications, G.N. Bordoloi Road, Gauhati-1, Assam, India) – " The Missionaries made Sibsagar in Eastern Assam the centre of their activities and used the dialect of Sibsagar for their literary purposes". The American Baptist Missionaries were the first
Assamese rô it is used before. For example: Examples of words are (arzon, which means 'gain'), (korta, which means 'doer') etc. When is added after another consonant, changes into "rô-kar". In other words, "rô-kar" after a consonant means that there is a "rô" sound after it. For example: Some consonants change their shape when "rô-kar" is added. For example: 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,