Assamese Language Resources

Assamese is spoken mainly in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. It has long served as a lingua franca in parts of Northeast India. It is also spoken in states of Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland. The Bengali-Assamese script can be found in of present-day Burma. The Pashupatinath Temple in Nepal also has inscriptions in Bengali-Assamese script showing its influence in the past. There is a significant Assamese-speaking diaspora worldwide. It has over 15 million native speakers and 8.3 million second language speakers. It is written in the Assamese alphabet, an abugida system, from left to right, with many typographic ligatures.

Assamese was designated as a classical Indian language by the Government of India on 3 October 2024 on account of its antiquity and literary traditions.

The Assamese people are about 2/3 Hindi and 1/3 Muslim. All people groups are classified as "frontier", meaning they have never heard of Christianity. The Bible has been translated into Assamese.

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