"Ruchinath Kamrupi" was a linguist from the Kamrup region of India, known for his early advocacy of the distinct linguistic identity of the Kamrupi language, distinguishing it from the Assamese language.
Early life
He was born in later half of eighteenth century, probably in Kamrup.
Notable works
In 1810 he compiled a manuscript of Sanskrit-Asamiya-Kamrupi vocabulary named "Vocabularies of the Ashami and Camarupa Languages" (Sanskrit-Assami-Kamrupi Sabdakosh), which is preserved in the India Office Library, London; where he shown linguistic differences between Kamrupi language and Assamese.
