Countries
India
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Bangladesh, India
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Assamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
nomoskaar
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
subhoraattri
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
suprobhaat
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
anugroha kori
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
biḍai
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 2
Goalpariya
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Assam
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
  
Russki
  
French Name
assamais
  
russe
  
German Name
Assamesisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Assamese people
  
Russians
  
Origin
7th century A.D
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Kamarupa
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Assamese
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
as
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
asm
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
asm
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
asm
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
assa1263
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic