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VII helter from the oppression of Mohamedan rulers, They brought with them some new words which gradually filtered down masses. The present Assamese to the language is thus made up of the following elements . ( 1 ), The Primary Prakrt of the Non-vedic Ar ans. ( 2 ) The sanskrit of the Vedie Aryans. ( ; ) The Indian Prakrts of the middle age, (4) The contribution made by the modern languages of Northern India whieh consists generally of new tatsands and words of Arabic origin. (8) Some words from surroun- ding Non-Aryans races who also gave an analytical haracter more to this than to the other Indian Iguages. Bengal , owing to her lovyr level naturally attrac ted the attention of the Aryan settlers after Assam. North Bengal became the meeting ground of the Kam rupi and Magdhan Prakrits. Hienchang the Chinese traveller of the seventh century, while recognising the language of Kamrupa as something different from that of Mid India by which he meant the seat of the monarch of Behar, made no mention of the lan- gmage of any part of Bengal Evidently a separate language did not evolve in Bengal at that timeThat what was prevalent was very much similar to Assam- ese, can be well , guessed from the subsequent litera- ture of that place Viz. The ‘Srikrishna-kritan' , and the Carya-padas ". if we leave out of account in the latter work the artificialities of Hindi origin. In vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, nay, even accentuation , the language that prevailed in Bengal