Assamese

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Eastern Indo-Aryan language Indo-Aryan language modern Indo-Aryan language

Assamese is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Indian state of Assam and recognized as one of the official languages of India.

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Observed surface forms (6)

Surface form Occurrences
Assamese language 3
Central Assamese 1
Eastern Assamese 1

Statements (67)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Indo-Aryan language ⓘ
Indo-Aryan language ⓘ
modern Indo-Aryan language ⓘ
ancestor Magadhi Prakrit ⓘ
surface form: Kamarupi Prakrit

Magadhi Prakrit ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Bengali ⓘ
Maithili ⓘ
Odia ⓘ
country India ⓘ
developedFrom Middle Indo-Aryan ⓘ
Old Indo-Aryan ⓘ
glottocode assa1263 ⓘ
hasDialects Assamese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Central Assamese

Assamese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Eastern Assamese

Assamese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Goalpariya Assamese

Assamese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Kamrupi Assamese

Standard Assamese ⓘ
Assamese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Western Assamese
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic ⓘ
English ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ
surface form: Persian

Sanskrit ⓘ
Tibeto-Burman languages ⓘ
hasLiteraryTraditionSince "at least 13th century" ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature SOV word order ⓘ
case markers ⓘ
postpositions ⓘ
rich verbal inflection ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ
voiceless and voiced stops ⓘ
vowel length not phonemic ⓘ
hasScriptVariant Old Assamese script ⓘ
modern Assamese script ⓘ
ISO639-1Code as ⓘ
ISO639-2Code asm ⓘ
ISO639-3Code asm ⓘ
languageCodeInIndiaConstitution Eighth Schedule language ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-Aryan ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form: Indo-European

Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
surface form: Indo-Iranian
nativeSpeakersApprox "15 million" ⓘ
officialLanguageOf Assam ⓘ
India ⓘ
primaryRegion Assam ⓘ
recognizedIn Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India ⓘ
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ
surface form: Bangladesh

Bhutan ⓘ
region Arunachal Pradesh ⓘ
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ
surface form: Bangladesh

Bhutan ⓘ
Meghalaya ⓘ
Nagaland ⓘ
Northeast India ⓘ
West Bengal ⓘ
regulatingBody Asam Sahitya Sabha ⓘ
scriptType abugida ⓘ
subclassOf Eastern Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form: Indo-European languages
totalSpeakersApprox "20–25 million" ⓘ
usedAs language of regional media in Assam ⓘ
language of state administration in Assam ⓘ
medium of instruction in Assam ⓘ
writingDirection left-to-right ⓘ
writingSystem Assamese script ⓘ
Eastern Nagari script ⓘ

Referenced by (22)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Magadhi Prakrit → ancestorOf → Assamese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assamese language
Assamese → hasDialects → Assamese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kamrupi Assamese
Assamese → hasDialects → Assamese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Goalpariya Assamese
Assamese → hasDialects → Assamese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eastern Assamese
Assamese → hasDialects → Assamese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Central Assamese
Assamese → hasDialects → Assamese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Western Assamese
Tezpur → hasLanguage → Assamese ⓘ
Assamese people → language → Assamese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assamese language
Partha → languageOfUse → Assamese ⓘ
Barak Valley → languageSpoken → Assamese ⓘ
Dibrugarh → languageUsed → Assamese ⓘ
Northeast India → majorLanguage → Assamese ⓘ
Guwahati → officialLanguage → Assamese ⓘ
Jorhat → officialLanguage → Assamese ⓘ
Silchar → officialLanguage → Assamese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assamese language