"Ruchinath Kamrupi" was linguist from Kamrup region of India. He was early advocate of distinctness of "Kamrupi language" from 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.
