"The word stress in the Kamrupi dialect is uniformly and dominantly initial as opposed to the penultimate stress of the standard colloquial." (Kakati 1941, pp. 16–17) Kakati, Banikanta (1941). Assamese: Its Formation and Development. Gauhati: Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies.
"Assamese follows the pan Indian system of penultimate stress and bengali has an initial stress. Even in that respect Bengali differs from Kamrupi dialect which also has an initial stress." (Kakati 1941, p. 7) Kakati, Banikanta (1941). Assamese: Its Formation and Development. Gauhati: Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies.
"In Western Assam perhaps in contact with some people speaking a language with a strong initial stress the penultimate stress of the primitive language got shifted to the initial syllable. In Eastern Assam the original penultimate stress persisted." (Kakati 1941, p. 84) Kakati, Banikanta (1941). Assamese: Its Formation and Development. Gauhati: Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies.
"In all these writers, the Assamese idiom seem to have been fully individualized...So is an anterior ā shortened before a following ā." (Kakati 1941, p. 12) Kakati, Banikanta (1941). Assamese: Its Formation and Development. Gauhati: Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies.
"...the initial stress had the victory ultimately and by the end of the Middle Bengali period [c1500 CE, p132] it is very likely that it was active in west central Bengali and most Bengali dialects thus giving to modern Bengali their typical form (ODBL 282) (Southworth 2005, p. 141) Southworth, Franklin C. (2005). Linguistic Archaeology of South Asia. London/New York: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN9780203412916.
"Uttorkol or Dhenkiri north of the Brohmoputro, Dokhyinkul south of the same, Bangalbhumi west of the Brohmoputro, and Kamrup proper, called so as containing Gohati, the most ancient capital of the country." (Martin 1838, p. 417) Martin, Robert Montgomery (1838). Puraniya, Ronggopoor and Assam. W.H. Allen and Company.
Kamrupi is defined as a dialect of Assamese in the title of the seminal work—Goswami 1970, A Study on Kamrupi: A dialect of Assamese Goswami, Upendranath (1970). A study on Kāmrūpī: a dialect of Assamese. Dept. of Historical Antiquarian Studies, Assam.
Goswami 1970, p. 28: "The sub-dialectical varieties of Kamrupi may be grouped mainly into three divisions —western, central and southern. The variety spoken in the area comprising Barpeta, Sundardiya, Patbausi, Bhabani- pur etc. is western, that of Nalbari and its surrounding areas is central." Goswami, Upendranath (1970). A study on Kāmrūpī: a dialect of Assamese. Dept. of Historical Antiquarian Studies, Assam.
Goswami 1970, p. 96: "In early Assamese we find such forms : dayaluka rama tumi bolaya sansare" Goswami, Upendranath (1970). A study on Kāmrūpī: a dialect of Assamese. Dept. of Historical Antiquarian Studies, Assam.
(Goswami 1970) "They cannot furnish the grammatical structure of Kamrupl or Assamese for which we are to turn our attention to the songs of the Buddhist Siddhacaryas, known as Caryas, composed in between 8th to 12th centuries A.D. Goswami, Upendranath (1970). A study on Kāmrūpī: a dialect of Assamese. Dept. of Historical Antiquarian Studies, Assam.
