Assamese
Indo-Aryan language spoken in Assam, India
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Summary
Assamese is a natural language[1]. Assamese ranks in the top 10% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,412 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: India[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4]
- Subclass of: Bengali–Assamese[5]
- Writing system: Assamese alphabet[6]
- Part of: Classical Languages of India[7], Schedule languages of India[8]
- Commons category: Assamese language[9]
- Wikimedia language code: as[10]
- Topic's main category: Category:Assamese language[11]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 15,300,000[12]
- Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13]
- Has characteristic: Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Assamese[14]
- Native label: অসমীয়া ভাষা[15], অসমীয়া[16]
- Indigenous to: Arunachal Pradesh[17], Assam[18], Meghalaya[19], Nagaland[20], West Bengal[21]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ASM[22]
- Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[23]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[24]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Assamese-language films[26]
- Related category: Category:Assamese pronunciation[27]
Why It Matters
Assamese has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Assamese is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]