Countries
India
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Bangladesh, India
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Assamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
nomoskaar
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
subhoraattri
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
suprobhaat
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
anugroha kori
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
  
آسف
  
Bye
biḍai
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Goalpariya
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Assam
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
assamais
  
arabe
  
German Name
Assamesisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Assamese people
  
Arabs
  
Origin
7th century A.D
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Indic
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Kamarupa
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Assamese
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
as
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
asm
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
asm
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
asm
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
assa1263
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic