Since 1836 Assamese has been written with a version of the Bengali alphabet with a few extra letters. The first printed book in Assamese was Atmaram Sarma's translation of the Bible, which published in 1813 by the Serampore English Missionary Press in Calcutta. From the 5th to the 13th century AD, it was written with the Kamarupi or Old Assamese alphabet, which developed from the Gupta script.Īssamese has a long literary tradition, and was used for edicts and other writings of medieval kings. Assamese is closely related to Bengali and Odia.Īssamese was first written with a version of the Brahmi script in 300 BC.
Assamese is an eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 20 million people in the Indian states of Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, and also spoken in Bangladesh and Bhutan.
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