Assamese language
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Assamese (/ˌæsəˈmiːz/[4]), also Asamiya ([ɔxɔmija] অসমীয়া),[5] is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-east Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language, and it serves as a lingua franca of the wider region.[6] The easternmost Indo-Iranian language, it has over 15 million speakers according to Ethnologue.[1]
Assamese | |
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Asamiya | |
অসমীয়া | |
![]() The word "Asamiya" in Assamese script | |
Pronunciation | [ɔxɔmija] |
Region | Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland |
Ethnicity | Assamese |
Native speakers | 15 million (2011 census)[1] |
Early forms | |
Dialects |
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Eastern Nagari (Assamese) Ahom script[2] (historical, rare) Assamese Braille Latin alphabet (Nagamese Creole)[3] | |
Official status | |
Official language in | ![]() |
Regulated by | Asam Sahitya Sabha (literature/rhetorical congress of Assam) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | as |
ISO 639-2 | asm |
ISO 639-3 | asm |
Glottolog | assa1263 |
Linguasphere | 59-AAF-w |
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Constitutionally recognised languages of India | |
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22 Official Languages of the Indian Republic | |
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Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India
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Nefamese, an Assamese-based pidgin, is used in Arunachal Pradesh, and Nagamese, an Assamese-based Creole language,[7] is widely used in Nagaland. The Kamtapuri language of Rangpur division of Bangladesh and the Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri districts of India are linguistically closer to Assamese, though the speakers identify with the Bengali culture and the literary language.[8] In the past, it was the court language of the Ahom kingdom from the 17th century.[9]
Along with other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Assamese evolved at least before the 7th century CE[10] from the middle Indo-Aryan Magadhi Prakrit.[11] Its sister languages include Angika, Bengali, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Chakma, Chittagonian, Hajong, Rajbangsi, Maithili, Rohingya and Sylheti. It is written in the Assamese alphabet, an abugida system, from left to right, with many typographic ligatures.