Countries
India
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Mon
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
Thai Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5233
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1112
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4133
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali
Tangut
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
nomoskaar
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
subhoraattri
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
suprobhaat
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
anugroha kori
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
biḍai
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Intha
Where They Speak
Assam
Burma
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million43.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
assamais
birman
German Name
Assamesisch
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Assamese people
Bamar people
Origin
7th century A.D
1113 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Assamese
Modern Burmese
Language Position
6543
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Assamese
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
as
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
mya
ISO 639 2/B
asm
bur
ISO 639 3
asm
mya
ISO 639 6
asm
mya
Glottocode
assa1263
sout3159
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating