Countries
India
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
Bangladesh, India
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
Assamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
nomoskaar
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
subhoraattri
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
suprobhaat
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
anugroha kori
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
biḍai
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
16
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Goalpariya
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Assam
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million
  
99+
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
assamais
  
birman
  
German Name
Assamesisch
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Assamese people
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
7th century A.D
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Kamarupa
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Assamese
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
as
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
asm
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
asm
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
asm
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
assa1263
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Assamese and Burmese Speaking population
Assamese and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Assamese and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Assamese and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Assamese and Burmese on Assamese vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Assamese and Burmese Language Codes
Assamese and Burmese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Assamese and Burmese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.