Assamese

About Assamese

Assamese is the official language of the Indian state of Assam and the first language of about 15 million people. It is an Indo-Aryan language, related to Bengali, and many peoples of Assam use it as a common language.

Assamese is written in a script shared with Bengali, apart from a few letters of its own such as ৰ (r) and ৱ (w). It has three levels of "you": apuni for elders and strangers, tumi for friends and equals and toi for close family and children. Nomoskar is a respectful greeting.

FamilyIndo-European, Indo-Aryan
Native speakersabout 15 million (2019)
Official inIndia (Assam)
ScriptAssamese alphabet (Eastern Nagari)
Codesas (ISO 639-1), asm (ISO 639-3)

Speaker number: Ethnologue (2019), via Wikidata. Retrieved 26 September 2026.

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