The script could be said to develop proto-Assamese shapes by the 13th century. Rock and copper plate inscriptions from then onwards, and Xaansi bark manuscripts right up to the 18th–19th centuries show a steady development of the Assamese alphabet. The script was very similar to the one used in Samudragupta's Allahabad Pillar inscription. The Umachal rock inscription of the 5th century evidences the first use of a script in the region. History Kanai-boroxiboa rock inscription, 1207 CE, shows proto-Assamese script Some similar scripts with minor differences are used to write Maithili, Bengali, Meithei and Sylheti. The Ahom king Supangmung (1663–1670) was the first ruler who started issuing Assamese coins for his kingdom. Later, Sankardev used it in the 15th and 16th centuries to compose his oeuvre in Assamese and Brajavali dialect, the literary language of the bhakti poems ( borgeets) and dramas.
In the 14th century Madhava Kandali used Assamese alphabets to compose the famous Saptakanda Ramayana, which is the Assamese translation of Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana. The Buranjis were written during the Ahom dynasty in the Assamese language using the Assamese alphabet. The present standard is identical to the Bengali alphabet except for two letters, ৰ (ro) and ৱ (vo) and the letter ক্ষ (khya) has evolved into an individual consonant by itself with its own phonetic quality whereas in the Bengali alphabet it is a conjunct of two letters. By the 17th century three styles of Assamese alphabets could be identified ( baminiya, kaitheli and garhgaya) that converged to the standard script following typesetting required for printing. The current form of the script has seen continuous development from the 5th-century Umachal/ Nagajari-Khanikargaon rock inscriptions written in an eastern variety of the Gupta script, adopting significant traits from the Siddhaṃ script in the 7th century. This script was also used in Assam and nearby regions for Sanskrit as well as other languages such as Bodo (now Devanagari), Khasi (now Roman), Mising (now Roman), Jaintia (now Roman) etc. The Assamese alphabet ( Assamese: অসমীয়া বৰ্ণমালা, Oxomiya bornomala) is a writing system of the Assamese language and is a part of the Bengali-Assamese script.
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