Countries
India
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
Munda Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5230
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
116
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4121
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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
Henda ho
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
Adi Johar
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
subhoraattri
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
संध्यायान
Good Morning
suprobhaat
Boge Setak’
Please
anugroha kori
দয়া করে
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
দুঃখিত
Bye
biḍai
Hariau
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Mahali
Where They Speak
Western Assam
India
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Not present
Where They Speak
Western Assam
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Not present
Where They Speak
Assam
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
15.30 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million6.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
15.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
assamais
santal
German Name
Assamesisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Assamese people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
7th century A.D
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
No early forms
Standard Forms
Assamese
Santali
Language Position
6541
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Assamese
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
as
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
sat
ISO 639 2/B
asm
sat
ISO 639 3
asm
sat
ISO 639 6
asm
sat
Glottocode
assa1263
sant1410
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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