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To find out the written specimens of the Assamese literature, we are to go back to the period of the songs and aphorisms composed by the Buddhist Siddhacharyas between the 8th and the 12th centuries A.D.
Assamese literary tradition dates to the 13th century. Prose texts, notably buranjis (historical works), began to appear in the 16th century.
Charyapads are considered as the first written specimen of Assamese literature.
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The Indo-Aryan language in Kamarupa had differentiated by the 7th-century, before it did in Bengal or Orissa.