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Assamese
Assamese

French
French



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Countries

Countries

India
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu

Total No. Of Countries

132
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, India
France

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Canada

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America

Minority Language

Bangladesh, Bhutan
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam

Regulated By

Asam Sahitya Sabha
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française

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.
  • French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
  • French is the top language in Culinary Scene.

Similar To

Bengali and Oriya
Italian Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5226
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

116
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4120
9 60
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Scripts

Bengali
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

nomoskaar
bonjour

Thank You

ḍhonyobaaḍ
Merci

How Are You?

aapuni kene aase?
Comment allez-vous?

Good Night

subhoraattri
bonne Nuit

Good Evening

subha gadhuli
bonsoir

Good Afternoon

subha abeli
bon Après-Midi

Good Morning

suprobhaat
Bonjour

Please

anugroha kori
S'il vous plaît

Sorry

moi ḍukkhita
désolé

Bye

biḍai
au revoir

I Love You

moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Je t'aime

Excuse Me

kyoma koribo
Excuse Moi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kamrupi
Quebec French

Where They Speak

Western Assam
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.006,200,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Goalpariya
African French

Where They Speak

Western Assam
Africa

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.00274,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Bhakatiya
Swiss French

Where They Speak

Assam
Northeast France, Switzerland

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.001,800,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

325
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

15.30 million163.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %1.12 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million76.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

15.00 million87.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
français

Alternative Names

Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Français

French Name

assamais
français

German Name

Assamesisch
Französisch

Pronunciation

[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]

Ethnicity

Assamese people
French people

History

Origin

7th century A.D
9th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Romance

Branch

Indic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Kamarupa
Old French, Middle French and French

Standard Forms

Assamese
Standard French

Language Position

6513
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Assamese
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

as
fr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

asm
fra

ISO 639 2/B

asm
fre

ISO 639 3

asm
fra

ISO 639 6

asm
fras

Glottocode

assa1263
stan1290

Linguasphere

59-AAF-w
51-AAA-i

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic