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Removed Shina as there is no data for the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir region in the Indian census. Chhattisgarhi is treated as a dialect of Hindi as per the Indian census that the map uses as a source. 15:29, 16 November 2020: 1,476 × 1,680 (249 KB) Sbb1413: Adjusted the colour of Kashmiri sphere. 15:25, 16 November 2020: 1,476 × 1,680 (249 ...
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.
Assam is a producer of crude oil and it accounts for about 15% of India's crude output, [256] exploited by the Assam Oil Company Ltd., [257] and natural gas in India and is the second place in the world (after Titusville in the United States) where petroleum was discovered.
Geographically Assam, in the middle of Northeast India, contains fertile river valleys surrounded and interspersed by mountains and hills.It is accessible from Tibet in the north (via Bum La, Se La, Tunga), across the Patkai in the Southeast (via Diphu, Kumjawng, Hpungan, Chaukam, Pangsau, More-Tamu) and from Burma across the Arakan Yoma (via An, Taungup).
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 ...
A map showing geographical distribution of the sub-branches of Bengali-Assamese languages according to the classification of Suniti Kumar Chatterji. [ 2 ] The Bengali-Assamese languages (also Gauda–Kamarupa languages ) is a grouping of several languages in the eastern Indian subcontinent .
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