| Kamrupi dialects | |
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| Pronunciation | /ˈkæmruːpi/[1] |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Kamrup region |
| Ethnicity | Kamrupi people |
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| Dialects | Barpetia dialect
Nalbariya dialect Palasbaria dialect |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
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Kamrupi dialects are a group of regional dialects of Assamese,[2] spoken in the Kamrup region. It formerly enjoyed prestige status.[3] It is one of two western dialect groups of the Assamese language, the other being Goalpariya.[4] Kamrupi is heterogeneous with three subdialects— Barpetia dialect, Nalbariya dialect and Palasbaria dialect.[5]
In medieval times, Kamrupi was used in the Brahmaputra Valley and its adjoining areas for literary purposes in parallel with Sanskrit, both for prose and poetry. This went against the practices of literary figures of mid India like Vidyapati who used Sanskrit for prose and Maithili for poetry.[6] In more recent times, the South Kamrupi dialect has been used in the works of author Indira Goswami. Poet and nationalist Ambikagiri Raichoudhury also used Kamrupi in his works to great extent.[7] In 2018, the Kamrupi film Village Rockstars became the first from the region to be selected for India's official entry to the 91st Academy Awards.[8] In 1996, another Kamrupi dialect film named Adajya directed by Santwana Bardoloi based on a novel by Indira Goswami titled Dontal Haatir Uiye Khuwa Haoda won the Indian National award as the Best Regional Film (Assamese) and Jury's special award.
- ^ Goswami 1970.
- ^ 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 1970:4)
- ^ (Kakati 1941, p. 16)
- ^ 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."
- ^ Medhi, Kaliram (1988). Assamese grammar and origin of the Assamese language.
Prose had also been used by the Maithili poets, Vidyapati, Harsanatha and others,--in their dramas. But whereas the Maithili poets prose was in Sanskrit and their songs alone in Maithili Sankara Deva's prose and songs were both in Kamrupi.
- ^ Sahitya Akademi, Indian literature: Volume 30, 1987 Ambikagiri set a new trend in Assamese by his abundant use of Kamrupi language in his writings.
- ^ "'Village Rockstars, Film On Guitar-Playing Girl, Is India's Oscar Entry'". Retrieved 11 October 2018.