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. Assamese is closely related to Bengali and Oriya.
The Assamese alphabet is written with a version of the Bengali alphabet. The first printed book in was Atmaram Sarma's translation of the Bible, which published in 1813 by the Serampore English Missionary Press in Calcutta.
Assamese is spoken by 1,53,34,000. Three Letter Code for Assamese is ASM. Alternative names are ASAMBE, ASAMI, and ASAMIYA. Dialects include JHARWA (PIDGIN), MAYANG, STANDARD ASSAMESE, and WESTERN ASSAMESE.
