Countries
India
  
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Bangladesh, India
  
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
  
South Africa
  
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
  
Not Available
  
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.
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Assamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
English-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
nomoskaar
  
Hello
  
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
  
Thank you
  
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
  
How are you?
  
Good Night
subhoraattri
  
Good Night
  
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
  
Good Evening
  
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
  
Good Afternoon
  
Good Morning
suprobhaat
  
Good Morning
  
Please
anugroha kori
  
Please
  
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
  
Sorry
  
Bye
biḍai
  
Bye
  
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
  
I love you
  
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
  
Excuse Me
  
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
  
American English
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
16
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Goalpariya
  
Hiberno-English
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
  
Welsh English
  
Where They Speak
Assam
  
United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million
  
99+
1,200.00 million
  
1
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
400.00 million
  
3
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
400.00 million
  
1
Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
  
English
  
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
  
Not Available
  
French Name
assamais
  
anglais
  
German Name
Assamesisch
  
Englisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Ethnicity
Assamese people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
7th century A.D
  
5th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Kamarupa
  
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Standard Forms
Assamese
  
Standard English
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed English
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
as
  
en
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
asm
  
eng
  
ISO 639 2/B
asm
  
eng
  
ISO 639 3
asm
  
eng
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
engs
  
Glottocode
assa1263
  
stan1293
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
  
52-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic