| Group | Indic (with Sanskrit, Pali etc.), New Indic (with Marathi, Punjabi etc.) |
| Geography & History | Assamese is spoken in India along the Brahmaputra river in the state of Assam. The number of speakers makes about 13 million. The poems in Assamese were written since the 14th century, epic chronicles - since the 17th century. |
| Phonetics & Morphology | Being quite close to the Bengali language, Assamese has lost the retroflex consonants which coincided with dental stops, and the palatal affricates which turned to sibilants. The system of analytical constructions used to be much more complex in Middle Oriya, but is simplified today: for example, the verb has lost its aspect category. |
| Writing | Bengali script |
| Close Contacts | Other neighbouring languages of the East Indic subgroup: Oriya and Bengali |
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