Countries
India
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
Armenian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5224
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
117
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4117
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
nomoskaar
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
subhoraattri
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
suprobhaat
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
anugroha kori
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
biḍai
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Greece
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Griko
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Italy
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Assam
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
325
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
assamais
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Assamesisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Assamese people
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
7th century A.D
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Hellenic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Assamese
Modern Greek
Language Position
6574
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Assamese
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
as
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
ell
ISO 639 2/B
asm
gre
ISO 639 3
asm
ell
ISO 639 6
asm
ells
Glottocode
assa1263
gree1276
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic