Editing Assamese language (section)

===Middle Assamese===
The language moved to the court of the [[Ahom kingdom]] in the seventeenth century,<ref name="ahom-court-language">"Incidentally, literate Ahoms retained the Tai language and script well until the end of the 17th century. In that century of Ahom-Mughal conflicts, this language first coexisted with and then was progressively replaced by Assamese (Asamiya) at and outside the Court." {{harvtxt|Guha|1983|p=9}}</ref> where it became the state language. In parallel, the proselytising [[Ekasarana dharma]] converted many Bodo-Kachari peoples and there emerged many new Assamese speakers who were speakers of Tibeto-Burman languages. This period saw the emergence of different styles of secular prose in medicine, astrology, arithmetic, dance, music, besides religious biographies and the archaic prose of magical charms.<ref name="harvcol|Goswami|2003|p=434"/>

Most importantly this was also when Assamese developed a standardised prose in the [[Buranji]]s—documents related to the Ahom state dealing with diplomatic writings, administrative records and general history.<ref name="harvcol|Goswami|2003|p=434"/> The language of the Buranjis is nearly modern with some minor differences in grammar and with a pre-modern orthography. The Assamese plural suffixes (''-bor'', ''-hat'') and the conjunctive participles (''-gai'': ''dharile-gai''; ''-hi'': ''pale-hi'', ''baril-hi'') become well established.<ref name="harvcol|Kakati|1953|p=6">{{harvcol|Kakati|1953|p=6}}</ref> The Buranjis, dealing with statecraft, was also the vehicle by which Arabic and Persian elements crept into the language in abundance.<ref name="harvcol|Goswami|2003|p=434"/> Due to the influence of the Ahom state the speech in eastern Assam took a homogeneous and standard form.<ref>{{harvcol|Kakati|1953|p=7}}</ref> The general [[Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages#Assamese|schwa deletion]] that occurs in the final position of words came into use in this period.