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 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