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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kamrupi is a group of dialects spoken primarily in undivided Kamrup district of Assam. It is also one of two dialect groups in the western variety of Assamese dialects, the other being Goalparya. The Kamrupi dialect was always known to be heterogeneous, and it can be considered to be a collection of four different dialects: Barpetia, Nalbaria, Kamrupi and South Kamrupi. In medieval times, it is used by scholars and saints of Brahmaputra Valley and its adjoining areas for literary purposes in parallel with Sanskrit both for prose and poetry as against practices of literary figures of mid India like Vidyapati who uses Sanskrit for prose and Maithili for poetry. Recent times, the South Kamrupi dialect has been used in the works of the writer Indira Goswami with dramatic effects. Poet and nationalist from Assam, Ambikagiri Raichoudhury uses Kamrupi in his works to great extent."