Indo-European · ISO 639-3 asm · as
Assamese Language অসমীয়া
Assamese is an Indo-European language spoken by about 17 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Bangla and Latin scripts.
Where Assamese is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Assamese
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Indo-Aryan Eastern zone
- Oriya-Gauda-Kamrupa
- Gauda-Kamrupa
- Kamrupa
- Eastern Kamrupa
- Assamese
Writing system
Bangla and Latin scripts
Related languages
About the Assamese language
Assamese (অসমীয়া) is spoken by about 17 million people, which makes it the 74th most spoken language in the world — just behind Mesopotamian Arabic (17 million) and ahead of Madurese (17 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Eastern Kamrupa group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Assamese spoken?
Assamese is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (18 million).
Assamese is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in India.
Writing system and status
Assamese is written in the Bangla and Latin scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Rangpuri, Surjapuri, Bengali, Sylheti, Chittagonian, Rohingya and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 as, ISO 639-3 asm.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.