Countries
India
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, India
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5226
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1124
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4123
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
nomoskaar
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
subhoraattri
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
suprobhaat
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
anugroha kori
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
biḍai
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Western Assam
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Wu
Where They Speak
Western Assam
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Yue
Where They Speak
Assam
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
assamais
chinois
German Name
Assamesisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Assamese people
Han
Origin
7th century A.D
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
No early forms
Standard Forms
Assamese
Standard Chinese
Language Position
651
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Assamese
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
as
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
zho
ISO 639 2/B
asm
chi
ISO 639 3
asm
zho
ISO 639 6
asm
zho
Glottocode
assa1263
sini1245
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating