Assamese language

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Assamese ( অসমীয়া )

Spoken in

India ( Assam and neighboring states), Bangladesh , Bhutan
speaker 15 million
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Official language in India , State of Assam
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

as

ISO 639 -2

asm

ISO 639-3

asm

The Assamese language ( অসমীয়া , asamīẏā , also Asamiya or Assami ) belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-Iranian subgroup of the Indo-European languages .

Assamese is the easternmost of the Indo-European languages ​​and is spoken predominantly in the northeast Indian state of Assam . According to the 2011 Indian census, Assamese has 15 million speakers. Assamese is the official language in the state of Assam. In addition, it is recognized as one of 22 constitutional languages ​​in India on a supraregional level .

Assamese is closely related to Bengali and Oriya . The three languages ​​developed from Magadhi , the eastern dialect of Apabhramsa , which followed Prakrit . The oldest recognized texts in Assamese come from the 14th century AD, from the time of the reign of King Durlabhnarayana.

Assamese was heavily influenced by the Tibeto-Burmese and Austro-Asian languages, and is written in a modified variant of the Bengali script .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Data on Language and Mother Tongue . Part A: Distribution of the 22 scheduled languages-India / States / Union Territories . (PDF) Census of India, 2011
  2. ^ Sylvain Lévi, Jean Przyluski, Jules Bloch: Pre-Aryan and Pre-Dravidian in India . Asian Educational Services, 1993, ISBN 978-81-206-0772-9 ( google.com [accessed December 8, 2019]).