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buranji
Indian chronicle
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Assamese literature
- In Assamese language
Prose texts, notably buranjis (historical works), began to appear in the 16th century. In the late 20th century, speakers of Assamese numbered more than 15 million.
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…to Assamese literature are the buranjis, chronicles written in a prose tradition taken to Assam by the Ahom people originally from what is now Yunnan, China. Assamese buranjis date from the 16th century, though the genre appears much earlier in the original Tai language of the Ahom.
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…to Assamese literature are the buranjis, chronicles written in a prose tradition brought to Assam by the Ahoms of Burma. These date in Assamese from the 16th century, while in the Ahom language they are much earlier.
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