Countries
Countries
India
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Ghana
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Akan Orthography 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.
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
Not Available
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5221
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1110
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4116
9
60
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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
NA44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
nomoskaar
ete-sen
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
meda ase
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
subhoraattri
maadwo
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
maadwo
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
maaha
Good Morning
suprobhaat
maakye
Please
anugroha kori
wae
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
Kafra
Bye
biḍai
bye
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialects
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Asante
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Ghana
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Akuapem
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Ghana
How Many People Speak
NA9,000,000.00
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Fante
Where They Speak
Assam
Ghana
How Many People Speak
NA1,900,000.00
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million11.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.17 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million11.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Akan
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Not Available
French Name
assamais
akan
German Name
Assamesisch
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Assamese people
Akan people
History
Origin
7th century A.D
15
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
No early forms
Standard Forms
Assamese
Akan
Language Position
65104
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
as
ak
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
aka
ISO 639 2/B
asm
aka
ISO 639 3
asm
aka
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
assa1263
akan1251
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available