Assamese in India

2. Status

Status

Official country wide language
Official regional language
Official minority language
Recognised community language
Unrecognised community language

National language

Yes

Indigenous language

Yes

Administrative units of the country

Assam

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

Extended corpora
Annotated corpora
Corpus/corpora
Materials/corpus
Some materials
No materials

Digital

Yes

Comments

Written materials of Assamese language available in the forms of Textbooks, literature, poem, dictionary, grammar etc.

https://archive.org/search?query=assamese

https://bharatavani.in/bharatavani/home/searchbt

https://lai.ciil.org/search?spc.page=1&query=assamese&spc.sf=score&spc.sd=DESC

P. N. Dutta Baruah. 1980. An Intensive Course in Assamese. (CIIL Intensive Course Series, 3.) Mysore: CIIL. 1068pp.

Pathak, Jiban Chandra. 1992. Daraṅgī Upabhāṣār Bibaraṇātmak Adhyayan [Descriptive Analysis of the Dialect of Darrang district]. (Doctoral dissertation, Gauhati University; xiii+483pp.)

https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/315460
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/81375
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/116076
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/handle/10603/116085
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/handle/10603/331692
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/handle/10603/350352

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Video

Extended corpora
Annotated corpora
Corpus/corpora
Materials/corpus
Some materials
No materials

Digital

Yes

Comments

Sound of the language, how to learn Assamese, dance, songs, comedy etc.

https://archive.org/details/movies?query=Assamese

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=assamese

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_Assamese-language_television_channels

https://assamtalks.com/

https://assam.news18.com/live-tv/

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Audio

Extended corpora
Annotated corpora
Corpus/corpora
Materials/corpus
Some materials
No materials

Digital

Yes

Comments

https://archive.org/details/SweetAssameseSongs

https://archive.org/details/BoliseMoloyaBaOldAssameseSong

https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/asm

https://www.languageshome.com/New/english-assamese/

https://onlineradiofm.in/assam

https://lai.ciil.org/search?spc.page=1&query=assamese&spc.sf=score&spc.sd=DESC

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Documentation: descriptions

Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
Dictionaries and grammars
Dictionary and grammar
Glossary and descriptions
Few descriptions
No descriptions

Digital

Yes

Comments

Kakati, Banamali. 1973. Structures and Classes in the Grammar of Assamese. (Doctoral dissertation, University of London; 366pp.)

Cardona, G. and Jain, D. (eds.) 2003. Asamiya - Origin and history of the language, The vocabulary, Dialects, Phonology, Word stress, Morphophonemics, Writing system, Morphology, Syntax u.v.m. In Cardona, G. and Jain, D. (eds.), The Indo-Aryan Languages.

Nathan Brown. 1848. Grammatical notices of the Asamese language. Sibsagor: American Baptist Mission Press. xxvi+80pp.

Robinson, William. 1839. A grammar of the Assamese language. Serampore: Serampore Press. ii+78pp.

Sarma, Giridhar. 2001. Sarma's Anglo-Assamese dictionary: English to Assamese & English. 10th edn. Guwahati, Assam: Bina Library. 641pp.

Dutta Baruah, P.N. (ed.) 1997. Assamese. In Dutta Baruah, P.N. (ed.), Languages of the North East: Assamese, Khasi, Manipuri, Mising and Rabha.

https://www.assamesetranslation.in/
https://assamweb.in/english-to-assamese-translation/
https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/candrakanta/
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/assa1263
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?location=%2F&query=Assamese&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc

Standardization

Modern standard language
Young standard language
Standardised language
Quasi-standard language
Semi-standardised language
Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

Standardised writing system with full script encoding
Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
Consistent writing system with no script encoding
Unsystematic writing system(s)
Limited written use
No written use

Comments

Assamese written with Bengali script

4. Users

Geographical distribution

Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
Users live in one [state/...] of the country
Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

Rural
Urban

Size / Number of users

Number of users

15311351

Source

Census of India

Year

2011

Users within total population

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Understand all, speak/sign well

Understand some, speak/sign little

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope

International
Supranational
Cross-border (states)
State-wide
Supra-regional cross-border
Supra-regional
Regional cross-border
Regional
Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope

Public domains
Everyday domains
Private domains

Nature

complementary

Stability

Increasing

Functional scope

Public domains
Everyday domains
Private domains

Nature

complementary

Stability

Increasing

Functional scope

Public domains
Everyday domains
Private domains

Nature

complementary

Stability

Increasing

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration

International level
National level
Regional level
Local level
Auxiliary use
No use

Types of language use

signed / spoken use
written use
digital use

Language is used for

Census data
Census surveys
Election processes
Topographical signs

Comments

State

Ethnoculture

No use
Informal learning
Skills and knowledge
Performing arts
Social practices
Customary law
Traditional medicine
Knowledge and practices
Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education

Primary level

Lower secondary level

Higher secondary level

Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Language not used
Translations
Healthcare information
Nursing care (incl. elderly)
Doctor-patient communication
Generally used

Information, communication and cultural production

Information services
Broadcasting
Video, film
Sound/music recording
Publishing activities
Language not used

Information services
Broadcasting
Video, film
Sound/music recording
Publishing activities
Language not used

Information services
Broadcasting
Video, film
Sound/music recording
Publishing activities
Language not used

Information services
Broadcasting
Video, film
Sound/music recording
Publishing activities
Language not used

Information services
Broadcasting
Video, film
Sound/music recording
Publishing activities
Language not used

Digital sphere

Language not used
Texting and messaging
Social media
Blogs, web pages, e-books
Edutainment products and services
Social media have a localized interface
Localized web search and e-commerce services
Localized operating systems
Machine translation
Top level domain name

Language not used
Texting and messaging
Social media
Blogs, web pages, e-books
Edutainment products and services
Social media have a localized interface
Localized web search and e-commerce services
Localized operating systems
Machine translation
Top level domain name

Language not used
Texting and messaging
Social media
Blogs, web pages, e-books
Edutainment products and services
Social media have a localized interface
Localized web search and e-commerce services
Localized operating systems
Machine translation
Top level domain name

Language not used
Texting and messaging
Social media
Blogs, web pages, e-books
Edutainment products and services
Social media have a localized interface
Localized web search and e-commerce services
Localized operating systems
Machine translation
Top level domain name

Language not used
Texting and messaging
Social media
Blogs, web pages, e-books
Edutainment products and services
Social media have a localized interface
Localized web search and e-commerce services
Localized operating systems
Machine translation
Top level domain name

Legal system

Language use in the legal system

General use
Legal transactions
Court proceedings
Written submissions
Spoken/signed testimonies
Language not used

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