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Assamese
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Countries

Countries

India

Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, India

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Bangladesh, Bhutan

Regulated By

Asam Sahitya Sabha

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.

Similar To

Bengali and Oriya

Derived From

Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

52
Rank: 31 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

11
Rank: 8 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

41
Rank: 30 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Bengali

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

nomoskaar

Thank You

ḍhonyobaaḍ

How Are You?

aapuni kene aase?

Good Night

subhoraattri

Good Evening

subha gadhuli

Good Afternoon

subha abeli

Good Morning

suprobhaat

Please

anugroha kori

Sorry

moi ḍukkhita

Bye

biḍai

I Love You

moi tomaak bhaalpaao

Excuse Me

kyoma koribo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kamrupi

Where They Speak

Western Assam

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.00
Rank: 44 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Goalpariya

Where They Speak

Western Assam

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.00
Rank: 30 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Bhakatiya

Where They Speak

Assam

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.00
Rank: 27 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

15.30 million
Rank: 46 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %
Rank: 44 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million
Rank: 40 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

15.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)

Alternative Names

Asambe, Asami, Asamiya

French Name

assamais

German Name

Assamesisch

Pronunciation

[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]

Ethnicity

Assamese people

History

Origin

7th century A.D

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

Branch

Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Kamarupa

Standard Forms

Assamese

Language Position

65
Rank: 56 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Assamese

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

as

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

asm

ISO 639 2/B

asm

ISO 639 3

asm

ISO 639 6

asm

Glottocode

assa1263

Linguasphere

59-AAF-w

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Know Alphabets in Assamese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Assamese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Assamese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Assamese. Assamese phonology gives Assamese vowels and Assamese consonants. There are 11 vowels and 41 consonants in Assamese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Assamese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Assamese language is given in detail in this section.

All Assamese countries

Want to explore all Assamese countries? About Assamese language serves you with all Assamese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Assamese as official language are called as Assamese countries.

  • Countries that use Assamese as their National Language are: Bangladesh, India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Assamese as second language are: Assamese is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Assamese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Assamese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Assamese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Assamese language.Learn Assamese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: nomoskaar
  • Thank you: ḍhonyobaaḍ
  • Good Morning: suprobhaat
  • Good Evening: subha gadhuli
  • Good Afternoon: subha abeli

All Assamese Language Codes

Get to know all Assamese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Assamese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.