Early Life and Missions To Burma and Assam
Born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, he attended Williams College, where he graduated first in his class. He and his wife, whom he married in 1830, went on to serve as missionaries in Burma. Brown's original intention had been to translate the Bible into Burmese, but he soon found himself pulled into a mission along with Oliver Cutter and Miles Bronson in the Indian region of Assam.
In 1848, Brown published an Assamese grammar, followed by an Assamese translation of the New Testament in 1850. The language regained recognition in part due to Assamese publications edited by him, and his association with Hemchandra Barua.
During British India, it imposed Bengali Language over Assamese as it took over Assam. The period for which Bengali Language was imposed is known as The Dark Age of Assamese Language, i.e., Bengali Language eclipse over Assamese.
Nathan Brown was widely regarded as one among the rescuers of Assamese Language from Bengali Language eclipse over Assamese.
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