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2 unusual facts about Assamese language


Gender neutrality in genderless languages

In Maithili, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya and Nepali, there are different nouns for professions, but they are not commonly used, so these languages have become gender-neutral.

Maramar Deuta

Maramar Deuta is a novel written in Assamese by renowned Assamese literature and film director Dr.


Euryale ferox

Euryale ferox (also known as fox nut, foxnut, 'thangjing' in Meeteilon i.e. Manipuri, makhana, nikori (in Assamese),Onibas (Onibasu) in Japanese or gorgon plant) is the only species in the genus Euryale.

Galo tribe

Around 90% of Galo children learn Galo as their first language, although almost all are also bilingual and borrow frequently from Assamese, Hindi and English.

Golaghat district

Raibahadur Ghanashyam Barua of Golaghat, who was also famous in the field of politics as the first Central Minister of Assam, translated William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors into the Assamese language along with three of his partners.

Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination

IIT-JEE is conducted only in English and Hindi, making it harder for students where regional languages, like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, Oriya, Bengali, Marathi, Assamese or Gujarati, are more prominent.

Jolpan

Rice flour (Pithaguri in Assamese) is fried and served with hot milk, jaggery and sometimes with ripe banana or ripe jackfruit.

Kohlrabi

Kohlrabi (German turnip or turnip cabbage) (Brassica oleracea Gongylodes group) (Olkopi in Assamese and Bengali) (Monji Haak in Kashmiri) is an annual vegetable, and is a low, stout cultivar of cabbage.

Language Movement Day

In Silchar, India, eleven people were killed by police firing on 19 May 1961 when protesting legislation that mandated the use of the Assamese language.

Magadhi Prakrit

Magadhi Prakrit later evolved into the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, including Assamese, Bengali, Oriya and the Bihari languages (Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Magahi, among others).

Pratima Barua Pandey

Pratima Barua Pandey (Assamese: প্ৰতিমা বৰুৱা পাণ্ডে) (Bengali: প্ৰতিমা বড়ুয়া পাণ্ডে) (3 October 1935 – 27 December 2002) was a popular folk singer from the royal family of Gauripur in Western Assam's Dhubri district.

Sangram Shah

Sangram Shah, who belongs to the Raj Gond dynasty in central India, during is reign had established 52 Medieval fortifications called Garh in Assamese language, to strengthen and defend the Gond Empire.

Sanjay Ghose

A bilingual film inspired by his life was made in Assamese and Hindi, which was directed by Bidyut Kotoky and produced by the National Film Development Corporation of India.

Supangmung

Supangmung (reigned 1663–1670), also known as Chakradhwaj Singha (Assamese: স্বৰ্গদেউ চক্ৰধ্বজ সিংহ), was an important Ahom king under whom the Ahom kingdom took back Guwahati from the Mughals following the reverses at the hands of Mir Jumla and the Treaty of Ghilajharighat.


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