Assamese, the official language of Assam in India, is spoken by around 15 million people. Closely related to Bengali, it is written in the Bengali-Assamese script, an abugida. Assamese grammar is highly inflected, with an agglutinative structure, numerous cases, and rich verbal conjugations. The language has a vibrant literary tradition and plays a central role in Assamese cultural identity, expressed in its folk songs, dance forms like Bihu, and extensive poetic heritage.
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Language Family: Indo-European
Writing System: Bengali-Assamese
Writing System Type: Abugida
Writing Direction: L to R
Tones / Pitch Accent: N
Morphology: Agglutinative
Cases: 8
Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 2
Number of Verb Tenses: 8
Word Order: SOV
Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 8
Number of Consonants: 23
Areas Where Spoken
India (1.03%) (official)