Countries
India
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Bangladesh, India
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Assamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
nomoskaar
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
subhoraattri
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
suprobhaat
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
anugroha kori
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
biḍai
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 2
Goalpariya
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Assam
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
assamais
  
népalais
  
German Name
Assamesisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Assamese people
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
7th century A.D
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Indic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Kamarupa
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Assamese
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
as
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
asm
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
asm
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
asm
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
assa1263
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Assamese and Nepali Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Assamese and Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Assamese and Nepali language. Assamese word for "Hello" is nomoskaar or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Assamese Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Assamese vs Nepali Difficulty
The Assamese vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Assamese Alphabets and Nepali Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Assamese and Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Assamese and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Assamese is Not Available while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.