Assamese language

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/assamese-language

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1. What is the language family?Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Eastern Indo-Aryan
2. What is the script?Assamese-Bengali script (derived from Brahmi)
3. Where is Assamese spoken?People speak Assamese mainly in Assam, a state in Northeast India, and also in nearby areas where Assamese communities live.
4. How did the Assamese language develop?It started to take shape in the 14th and 15th centuries, thanks to saints and poets. It also mixed with local Tibeto-Burman languages, giving it unique words and sounds.

Abugida: A writing system where consonant-vowel units are written as a single unit, with the vowel often indicated by diacritics.
Agglutinative language: A language in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes (meaningful units) that do not change much.
Sociolinguistics: The study of the relationship between language and society, and the effects of society on language.