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This makes Assamese resemble non-Indic languages of Northeast India (such as Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan languages). [66] The only other language to have fronted retroflex stops into alveolars is the closely related group of eastern dialects of Bengali (although a contrast with dental stops remains in those dialects).
Assamese language is used as the lingua franca by almost all the tribes. [1] According to the 2001 census, Scheduled Tribes made up 12.4 percent of Assam's population. [2] The Assam Tribune reported in 2009 that the tribal communities of Assam were accounted for 15.64 percent of the total population. [1]
Language Native name Script Alphabet Number of speakers (in millions) Native region Assamese: অসমীয়া Oxomiya: Bengali–Assamese script: Assamese alphabet: 15.3 [3] India Bengali: বাংলা Bangla: Bengali–Assamese script: Bengali alphabet: 261.8 [4] Bangladesh (national and official)
Bodo is spoken largely in Western Assam. It is official language of the Bodoland territorial region and co-official language of the state of Assam. It is also one of twenty-two languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India.
Khamyang is a critically endangered Tai language of India, spoken by the Khamyang people. Approximately fifty people speak the language; all reside in the village of Powaimukh, located seven miles downstream of Margherita in the Tinsukia district. [2] It is closely related to the other Tai languages in the Assam region: Aiton, Khamti, Phake ...
The Assamese people are a socio-ethnic linguistic [5] identity that has been described at various times as nationalistic [6] or micro-nationalistic. [7] This group is often associated with the Assamese language, [8] the easternmost Indo-Aryan language, and Assamese people mostly live in the Brahmaputra Valley region of Assam, where they are native and constitute around 56% of the Valley's ...
Boro [2] (बरʼ), also rendered Bodo, [3] is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Boros of Northeast India and the neighboring nations of Nepal and Bangladesh.It is an official language of the Indian state of Assam, predominantly spoken in the Bodoland Territorial Region.
Mising is a Tani language spoken by the Mising people.There are 629,954 speakers (as per Census of India, 2011), who inhabit mostly in the Dhemaji district, Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Majuli, Golaghat, Tinsukia districts of Assam and also some parts of Arunachal Pradesh.