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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

India

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Bangladesh, India

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Bangladesh, Bhutan

1.7 Regulated By

Asam Sahitya Sabha

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Bengali and Oriya

1.10 Derived From

Sanskrit Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

52
Rank: 31 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

11
Rank: 8 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

41
Rank: 30 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Bengali

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

nomoskaar

3.2 Thank You

ḍhonyobaaḍ

3.3 How Are You?

aapuni kene aase?

3.4 Good Night

subhoraattri

3.5 Good Evening

subha gadhuli

3.6 Good Afternoon

subha abeli

3.7 Good Morning

suprobhaat

3.8 Please

anugroha kori

3.9 Sorry

moi ḍukkhita

3.10 Bye

biḍai

3.11 I Love You

moi tomaak bhaalpaao

3.12 Excuse Me

kyoma koribo

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Kamrupi

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Western Assam

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

6,000,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Goalpariya

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Western Assam

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Bhakatiya

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Assam

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

15.30 million
Rank: 46 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.24 %
Rank: 42 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

15.00 million
Rank: 40 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Asambe, Asami, Asamiya

5.3.4 French Name

assamais

5.3.5 German Name

Assamesisch

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Assamese people

6 History

6.1 Origin

7th century A.D

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

6.2.2 Branch

Indic

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Kamarupa

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Assamese

6.3.3 Language Position

65
Rank: 46 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

as

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

asm

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

asm

7.3 ISO 639 3

asm

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

assa1263

7.6 Linguasphere

59-AAF-w

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Origin of Assamese language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Assamese language is one of the Easiest Languages to Learn. The origin of Assamese language states that it was put to use in 7th century A.D. The history of Assamese language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Assamese Language History.The evolution of Assamese language began with early forms such as Kamarupa. Assamese is the standard form of Assamese language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Assamese Language.

Assamese population

Assamese population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Assamese language. Assamese language is spoken by 15.30 million people in the world. Most of the Assamese population lies in the Assamese Speaking Countries. Assamese language is spoken as first language by 15.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Assamese as second language. Get to know Assamese speaking population in detail.

Assamese writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Assamese writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Assamese language. Some languages share common writing systems. Bengali script is used by Assamese language. Learn more about . 

Information about Assamese language

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