Search results
(Top) Languages. Language comparison chart. Verbs. References. Bibliography. Bengali–Assamese languages. The Bengali–Assamese languages (also Gauda–Kamarupa languages) is a grouping of several languages in the eastern Indian subcontinent. This group belongs to the Eastern zone of Indo-Aryan languages.
অপৰূপা কথাছবিৰ এখন পোষ্টাৰ।...যে জাহ্নু বৰুৱা পৰিচালিত প্ৰথম চলচ্চিত্ৰ অপৰূপাই, হিন্দী ভাষাতো "অপেক্ষা" নামেৰে মুক্তি লাভ কৰিছিল?
People also ask
Is Assamese a language?
What is Bengali Assamese script?
What is the Assamese language movement?
Where did Assamese come from?
- History
- Script
- In Unicode
- See Also
- External Links
The Bengali–Assamese script was originally not associated with any particular regional language, but was prevalent as the main script in the eastern regions of Medieval India for Old- and Middle-Indo-Aryan including Sanskrit.All of these eastern Magadhan scripts are based on a system of characters historically related to, but distinct from, Devanag...
In this and other articles on Wikipedia dealing with the Assamese and Bengali languages, a Romanization scheme used by linguists specialising in Bengali phonology and a separate Assamese transliteration table used by linguists specialising in Assamese phonology are included along with IPAtranscription.
There are two Unicodeblocks for Bengali–Assamese script, called Bengali and Tirhuta. The Bengali block is U+0980–U+09FF: The Tirhuta block isU+11480–U+114DF:
- left-to-right
- Abugida
- c. 1100–present
In April 1836, Bengali was declared the language of the courts in Assam, replacing Assamese in the Brahmaputra valley. Bengali was also used as the medium of instruction in the educational institutions of Assam. Within decades, the Assamese began to resent the state of affairs.
The largest such languages in terms of first-speakers are Hindi–Urdu (c. 330 million), Bengali (242 million), Punjabi (about 120 million), Marathi (112 million), and Gujarati (60 million). A 2005 estimate placed the total number of native speakers of the Indo-Aryan languages at nearly 900 million people. [13]
Bengali is spoken by 6.09 million people representing 22.1% of the valley, Hindi is spoken by 2.1 million comprising 7.61% of the region, Bodo is spoken by 1.41 million comprising 5.13% of the valley's population and 2.98 million people speak various indigenous tribal languages of Assam, such as Karbi, Tiwa (Lalung), Hmar, Deori, Rabha, Mishing ...
