Countries
India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
Dutch Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5232
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1115
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4117
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
nomoskaar
hallo
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
Dankie
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
subhoraattri
goeie nag
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
Goeie middag
Good Morning
suprobhaat
goeie more
Please
anugroha kori
asseblief
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
jammer
Bye
biḍai
Totsiens
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Western Assam
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Western Assam
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Assam
Namibia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Cape Dutch
French Name
assamais
afrikaans
German Name
Assamesisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Assamese people
Afrikaners
Origin
7th century A.D
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Assamese
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
6523
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Assamese
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
as
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
afr
ISO 639 2/B
asm
afr
ISO 639 3
asm
afr
ISO 639 6
asm
afrs
Glottocode
assa1263
afri1274
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic