Dark Age of the Assamese language Dark Age of the Assamese language The Dark Age of Assamese Language is the time-frame during which Bengali Language eclipsed the Assamese. This time-frame is about 37 years long, from 1836 until 1873. During British India, the Bengali Language was imposed over Assamese as the British took over Assam. The clerical and technical workers that they brought were Bengali, imposing Bengali as the medium of instruction in schools and colleges and for all official purposes. Nathan Brown, an American Baptist missionary to India, worked for the restoration of the Assamese language to avoid it being overtaken by the Bengali language
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,