Countries
India
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
Hindi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5248
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1112
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4136
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali
Devanagari
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
nomoskaar
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
subhoraattri
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
Good afternoon
Good Morning
suprobhaat
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
anugroha kori
कृपया
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
biḍai
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Doteli
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Western Assam
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Assam
Nepal
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
312
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
15.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
assamais
népalais
German Name
Assamesisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Assamese people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
7th century A.D
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Assamese
Nepali
Language Position
6559
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Assamese
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
as
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
nep
ISO 639 2/B
asm
nep
ISO 639 3
asm
npi
ISO 639 6
asm
nep
Glottocode
assa1263
nepa1254
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative