Countries
India
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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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 earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
Bengali and Assamese
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5242
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1111
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4131
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
nomoskaar
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Good Night
subhoraattri
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good Morning
suprobhaat
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Please
anugroha kori
ଦୟାକରି
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Bye
biḍai
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Baleswari
Where They Speak
Western Assam
India
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0033,800,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Ganjami
Where They Speak
Western Assam
India
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0033,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Kosli
Where They Speak
Assam
India
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00520,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
15.30 million33.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
15.00 million33.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
15.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
French Name
assamais
oriya
German Name
Assamesisch
Oriya-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[ˈoɽia]
Ethnicity
Assamese people
Odias
Origin
7th century A.D
3 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
No early forms
Standard Forms
Assamese
Standard Odia
Language Position
6532
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Assamese
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
as
or
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
ori
ISO 639 2/B
asm
ori
ISO 639 3
asm
ori
ISO 639 6
asm
ori
Glottocode
assa1263
macr1269
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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