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