Assamese, also known by its endonyms Asamiya or Oxomiya, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. It was designated a classical Indian language by the Government of India on 3 October 2024, on account of its antiquity and literary traditions.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2011 estimate, first-language (L1) speakers. StatusWikipedia article on Assamese: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Attested From (Year) RegionNortheast India - Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland 2 Classification
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Source Wikipedia: Assamese Language
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Assamese is standardly written in the Eastern Nagari (Bengali-Assamese) script.
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It has long served as a lingua franca in parts of Northeast India.
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1. Glottolog: Assamese (Glottolog languoid assa1263)
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AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Assamese Language
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It has over 15 million native speakers and 8.3 million second language speakers according to Ethnologue, although this claim is widely disputed by academics, based on census figures. Assamese was designated as a classical Indian language by the Government of India on 3 October 2024 on account of its antiquity and literary traditions.
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Northeast India Assam Arunachal Pradesh Meghalaya Nagaland
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Assamese, also known by its endonyms Asamiya or Oxomiya (অসমীয়া Ôxômiya [ɔxɔmija] ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language.
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Indo-Iranian
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Bengali-Assamese
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Assamese was first written with a version of the Brahmi script in 300 BC.
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