A Quantitative Analysis of Synset of Assamese Wordnet: Its Position and Timeline Shikhar Kr. Sarma Gauhati University Guwahati,Assam,India. sks001@gmail.com Dibyajyoti Sarmah Gauhati University Guwahati,Assam,India. dibyasarmah@gmail.com Ratul Deka Gauhati University Guwahati,Assam,India. rdeka8258@gmail.com Anup Borman Gauhati University Guwahati,Assam,India. anupbarman@gmail.com Jumi Sarmah Gauhati University Guwahati,Assam,India. jumis884@gmail.com Himadri Bharali Gauhati University Guwahati,Assam,India. himadri0001@gmail.com Mayashree Mahanta Gauhati University Guwahati,Assam,India. mayashreemahanta@gmail.com Umesh Deka Gauhati University Guwahati,Assam,India. deka_umesh@rediffmail.com Abstract The synsets in Assamese Wordnet play a sig- nificant role in the enrichment of Assamese language. These synsets are built depending on the intuition the native speakers of the lan- guage. There is no fixed rule in the arranging the positions of each synset. The present paper mainly aims to make a quantitative compari- son of every synset position of Wordnet seeing the occurrences of these synsets in corpus of Assamese (approximately 1.5 million words). The experimental result of this comparison is represented with the help of diagrams. Again, it is an attempt to highlight the timeline of each synsets of Wordnet based on the corpus. It is dealt with the change of the synonymous word forms in course of times. 1 Introduction Language is a central feature of human identity. Language is the identity of that particular com- munity. No community can survive without a language. The language of the communities live in India is very ancient and rich. Similarly, As- samese language is also one of the ancient and rich languages of the north-eastern languages. Assamese has been regarded as a rich language with its own script and written literary texts since the ancient times. Assamese language belongs to the Satam group of the Indo-European language family. The main root of this language lies to the Indo-Aryan languages. Dr. Banikanta Kakati has classified the devel- opment of Assamese language into three stages: A. Early Assamese (14 th to 16 th century A.D.) This period again may be divided into a) Pre- Vaishnavite and b) Vaishnavite sub-periods. The earliest known Assamese writer is Hema Saraswati, who wrote a small poem ‘Prahlad Charit’. Sankardeva, the great Vaishnavite re- former in Assam, born in 1449 A.D. composed religious songs and drama. In his popularly known as Braja-Bali idioms. B. Middle Assamese (17 th to 19 th centu- ry A.D.) The main characteristic of this period is the his- torical writings initiated under the inspiration of the Ahom court. These historical writings in prose are known as Buranjis. In the Ahom court, historical Chronicles were at first composed in their original Tibeto-Chinese languages, but when the Ahom rulers adopted Assamese as the court language, historical chronicles began to be written in Assamese. The language is essentially modern except for slight alterations in grammar and spelling.