 Assamese is the language spoken by the people of Assam. According to researchers, Assamese is a sibling of Bengali, the parent language being Sanskrit. The Assamese pronunciation of words derived from Sanskrit is such as to render the supposition of Bengali origin. However a section of researchers say that the two languages were derived in parallel from Sanskrit.
Assamese and Bengali have contrasting systems of accentuation. Assamese follows the pan-Indian system of penultimate stress, while Bengali has an initial stress. There are not many linguistic works in Assamese. |
