Assamese > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Assamese
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Asambe; Asami; Asamiya; Assami; Āh̰amiyā; Ŏsŏmiyā; Ahamiya; Osomiya; Ahomiyo
Spoken in:
India, Bangladesh, Bhutan
Number of speakers:
16,700,000 in India (2000). Population total all countries: 16,818,750
(Ethnologue)
Code:
asm
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
Bengali-Assamese; Bengali (beas)
Child Dialects:
Jharwa; Pidgin; Jharwā (asm-jha)
Mayang; Mayāng (asm-may)
Western Assamese; Kamrupi (asm-wes)
Standard Assamese (asm-sta)
Map of Assamese
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