Assamese
See also: assamese
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editAssamese (comparative more Assamese, superlative most Assamese)
- Of, from or relating to the northeast-Indian state of Assam, or the region for which it is named.
- In or relating to its majority people's Indo-Aryan language.
- Only three in five Assamese (citizens of Assam) are linguistic Assamese.
Translations
editof, from or relating to Assam
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Noun
editAssamese (plural Assameses or Assamese)
- A member of the people of Assam.
Proper noun
editAssamese
- The Indo-Aryan language spoken by the majority people in the state of Assam, NE India.
Derived terms
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See also
edit- Wiktionary's coverage of Assamese terms
- Appendix:Assamese Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Assamese
- ISO 639-1 code as, ISO 639-3 code asm (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Assamese, asm
- “Assamese”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.