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	Assamese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Assamese (অসমীয়া) or Ôxômiya (IPA [ɔxɔmija]) is the language spoken by some of the natives of the state of Assam in northeast India.
		Assamese language features have been discovered in the 9th century Charyapada, which are Buddhist verses discovered in 1907 in Nepal, and which came from the end of the Apabhramsa period.
		Assamese uses the Assamese script, which traces its descent from an eastern variant of the Gupta script.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assamese_language (1709 words)

	Assamese script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Assamese script belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts and is very similar to Devanagari.
		In the 19th century, three styles of the script were identified (baminiya, kaitheli and garhgaya) which gave way to the standard script which followed the typeset script.
		Earliest form of evidence Assamese script is found in the Charyyapadas, the Buddhist songs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assamese_script (234 words)

	Language in India
		If script creates confusion and cannot represent the sounds distinct, and at the same time it takes more time for reading and writing, and is difficult to adopt for printing purposes, then the script should be modified to fulfill the needs of the community, or it should be replaced by another better script.
		Two scripts across nations are also uneconomical and inconvenient in the sense that a person interested in reading the literature written in his language from across the international border will not have an easy access to it, because the literature is written in a script that he cannot read or write.
		When a script distinct from the script of the dominant regional language is to be adopted, one can think of the script of the next useful language, especially the language that the children from the people group will be required to learn in the school system.
	www.languageinindia.com /sep2001/jcscript.html (3422 words)

	W3C I18N FAQ: Script direction and languages
		Script: A collection of characters for displaying written text, all of which have a common characteristic that justifies their consideration as a distinct set.
		Knowing the directionality of text, based on the script(s) to be used, is important to web designers and authors, because right-to-left text can be more complicated (for beginners) to work with and the organization and directionality of the page layout are affected.
		Scripts have a writing direction, and so languages written in a particular script, will be written with the direction of that script.
	www.w3.org /International/questions/qa-scripts.html (1142 words)

	RBC RADIO - Languages of India
		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.
		The Gujarathi script is similar to the Hindi script, except for the horizontal line over the letters.
	www.rbcradio.com /knowlanguages.html (1706 words)

	Religion, Linguistics and Separatism in North-East India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This script was used extensively and is still in use in the Mithila region of Bihar.
		She opted for a third script which is different from both the Roman and the Assamese, and at the same time rooted in the Indian soil.
		The Devnagari script was given the official status in 1980 and her party, the Congress party, supported the creation of the Bodo Autonomous Council, which became a reality in February, 1993.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0700/95.html (1535 words)

	Character Encoding Standard for Indian Scripts - A Report
		The Northern scripts are Devanagari, Gujarati, Punjabi, Assamese, Bengali and Oriya.
		The Southern scripts are Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada.
		This is made possible by their common origin from the ancient Brahmi script and by the phonetic nature of the alphabet.
	www.cicc.or.jp /english/hyoujyunka/mlit4/7-3India/India.htm (2240 words)

	Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		India's official language is Hindi in the Devnagri script.
		Most of the Indian languages have their own script and are spoken in the respective states along with English.
		is a language written in both Persio-Arabic and Devnagri script and is spoken by 55 percent of the population of Jammu and Kashmir.
	www.indiamission.org /About_Life_In_India/India_Language.htm (640 words)

	Indic Standards
		The difference is that in the Latin script the constituents are mostly easily found, this is far from true in the Indian scripts.
		This is the script for the Oriya language.
		Assamese is written with a script very similar to the Bengali script.
	homepages.cwi.nl /~dik/english/codes/indic.html (663 words)

	.....Assamese Transliteration Project..... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		If a system like the one stated above can be agreed upon by one and all, then to transcribe Assamese words we just have to replace the assamese letters with their corresponding english group of alphabets..(omitting the the "a" in the consonants whne they appear at the end of the word).
		Syamanta ##7 Assamese has the letter "wa" ("wabbo") as in "bowa" (meaning "flow" or to "weave" as well; i would prefer to type it as "buwa" myself).
		It is composed of the following letters/signs in Assamese: 1) the letter "ba", 2) the sign for o-kar (as in "mor" or "mur" or mine) 3) the letter "wa" or "wabbo" 4) the "a" kar.
	www.geocities.com /assamese_transliteration/proposal.html (3272 words)

	: : u t p a l b a r u a : :
		The Assamese and the Manipuris had always had their own script while the others made do with either the Assamese script or the Roman.
		Assamese had served as the link language till some thirty years when the whole area was virtually one political unit.
		I have chosen to illustrate the craft practices of the region with the Missing and Karbi ethnic communities and the mainstream Assamese from Assam, the Angami from Nagaland, the and Jaintia from Meghalaya, Monpa and Nisi from Arunachal.
	www2.rgu.ac.uk /challengingcraft/ChallengingCraft/papers/utpalbarua/ubarua02.htm (586 words)

	Minorities At Risk (MAR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Population: (1998): Assamese: 12.792 million (This is 1.3% of the country population of 984.004 million).
		The Assamese sense of threat was sharpened by developments in neighboring Tripura, which was one-third Bengali-speaking in 1947 but two-thirds Bengali-speaking in the late 1970s and politically dominated by Bengalis.
		Turmoil in Assam in the early- and mid-1980s was largely a result of perceptions of central neglect, geographic isolationism, the influx of illegal migration from neighboring regions, and resentment at persistent underdevelopment.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/indbodo.htm (1880 words)

	Assamese Language,official Language of Assam, Regional Languages of Assam
		Assamese or Ahomiya developed into a literary language as late as 13AD.
		Assamese is spoken all along the Brahmaputra valley and sounds quite similar to Bengali, except for a few differences.
		In the modern period the political upheavals were felt in the literary scene too.
	www.indiasite.com /language/assamese.html (565 words)

	Language
		With a majority of the total population using the tongue, Assamese is the major language of the State.
		Besides English, Assamese was accorded the status of the official language of the Brahmaputra Valley by the Official Language Act of 1960.
		However, Bengali and English were also simultaneously accorded the status of official language for the Barak Valley and the two Hill Districts by the same Act.The earliest specimen of the Assamese script is to be found in copper plates and inscriptions discovered in different parts of the region.
	assamgovt.nic.in /language.asp (235 words)

	MavicaNET - Sur la base de l'Assamese
		The Assamese script has 41 consonants and 11 vowels.
		These are similar to the Devnagari script which is used by Hindi, the present national language.
		Assamese or Asamiya is the language spoken by the natives of the state of Assam in northeast India.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/fra/2341.html (196 words)

	Sorting It All Out : A script, by any other name
		Now the Script column is not really part of the census data (the census data can be found quoted in many other online sources!), but the use of this column does show some interesting patterns -- for example referring to the Arabic script as Urdu rather than Arabic.
		But the most interesting item (in my opinion) is the way Assamese is known as using the Assamese script (according to Unicode, both Bengali and Assamese are written with the Bengali script).
		Obviously politics enter into the situation here, along with that unfortunate situation where a script and a language share the same name and all of the confusion that causes.
	blogs.msdn.com /michkap/archive/2006/01/05/509100.aspx (799 words)

	Excavations in Assam
		Further, their initial coins bore ahom legends in ahom script which gradually made way for sanskrit legends in the assamese script with the year of issue quoted in saka era as prevalent on contemporary hindu coinage.
		Consecutively bore the names of his three queens, which interestingly were issued in assamese and persian, the latter in a style similar to that of the powerful mughal empress nur jahan.
		During the reign of siva simha, coins of one-fourth denomination called siki were issued, and his successor pramata simha issued coins of one eighth rupee and one sixteenth rupee, which indicated the increasing use of coined money in lower value transactions.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /assam/excavations/ahom-coins.html (1135 words)

	Language and Scripts
		The list is intentionally abbreviated for languages written in the Latin script: only a few of the more prominent languages are listed.
		If more than one script is required to write a language, the sign "+" is used between script names; otherwise the scripts are used independently.
		When more than one script is listed, the script thought to be most current or most widely used is listed first.
	www.unicode.org /onlinedat/languages-scripts.html (256 words)

	Monotype: Non Latin Font
		Belonging to the group of Northern Indic scripts, Bengali script is used primarily for the Bengali, Assamese and Manipuri languages.
		In Bengali script, half forms are typically missing the vertical stroke of the full form.
		Geminate (or long) consonants are written as double consonants which are formed by stacking the repeated character horizontally or vertically.
	www.monotypefonts.com /Library/Non-Latin-Library.asp?show=info&lan=bengali (314 words)

	Assamese and Bengali as separate scripts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Tables are arranged by languages, but this enables the difference between the two scripts to appear naturally.
		Maheshwar Neog writes on 'The Assamese-Bengali Script', where the singular noun refers to the historical totality in all its variety, but when the author describes the current differences he has to speak of 'the Assamese and Bengali scripts' in the plural (p.
		For the purpose of transliteration, the scripts are necessarily different.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /stone-catend/trab.htm (172 words)

	Languages of INDIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Besides Hindi and English, the other popular languages are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Oriya, Telugu and Urdu.
		Assamese is the state language of Assam and is spoken by nearly 60 percent of the State's population.
		Kashmiri is a language written in the Persio-Arabic script and is spoken by 55 percent of the population of Jammu and Kashmir.
	cctr.umkc.edu /user/pthudia/lang.html (668 words)

	Bangla Language and Script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The aim of the historians of script has so far been to minutely follow the gradual modification of the letter forms in the course of time and to discuss in the epigraphic records, a curious species of palaeographic chronometer for dating otherwise un-datable inscriptions.
		The recent discovery of a number of seals bearing inscriptions in an unknown script, however, has brought to light that the art of writing in India is as old as the third or fourth millennium BC to which these inscriptions are referred to, on the basis of their similarity with the Sumerian.
		The Kharoshti script was prevalent in India from the third century BC to third century AD, and outside India, in Central Asia, for a few more centuries.
	www.isical.ac.in /~rc_bangla/bangla.html (1289 words)

	Assamese film writer in Dubai has Bollywood dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) A film script about three non-resident Indians (NRIs) in the Gulf, based on a story by a Dubai-based Assamese writer, is set to be brought to the big screen by Bollywood film director Aditya Bhattacharya.
		Utpal Nath, who had originally written the story in Assamese, says he had to rewrite it in the more contemporary 'Hinglish' to reach a wider audience within and outside India on the advice of the director.
		We are considering Assamese actors for some roles and communicating with a few people regarding this," Nath said.
	www.nowrunning.com /news/news.asp?id=3933 (583 words)

	Re: [Assam] Plea to change name of State to 'Aso m'-AT
		First we confuse the Roman Script to be exclusive to the English language.
		What actually happened to the 'closing of the Assamese mind' was that since Yandabu Xondhi Assamese Hindus were overwhelmed and mesmerised by their big brother Pan Indian culture which was suddenly opened to them by the British.
		It is the Ahoms who established the Assamese language as a Court language.
	www.mail-archive.com /assam@assamnet.org/msg03719.html (1837 words)

	Language in India
		Eighteen Indian languages, namely, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu are spoken by 96.29% of the population of the country and the remaining 3.71% of the population speak rest of the languages.
		Normal convention regarding any script is that a language often uses the same single and specific script to render itself in the visual medium wherever it is spoken.
		If this was not acceptable or possible, the script of the dominant regional language of the state or union territory where the unwritten language was spoken, would be recommended.
	www.languageinindia.com /april2004/katmandupaper2.html (4666 words)

	Indian Languages Portal - Assamese Main Page
		Assamese is the eastern-most language of the Indo-European family of langauges.
		The Assamese language grew out of Sanskrit, the ancient language of the Indian subcontinent.
		Assamese is spoken and used in Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh.
	www.indianlanguages.com /assamese (149 words)

	Some Properties of Indian Scripts
		Most Indian scripts are written from left to right with the exception of Urdu which is written from right to left.
		The script of Hindi is Devanagari (which is also used to write Nepali, Marathi and Sindhi), while that of Bangla is called Bangla (also used to write Assamese and Manipuri).
		Figure 1 shows the Roman script and scripts of some of the popular Indian languages.
	www.cs.utah.edu /~arul/report/node6.html (255 words)

	Assamese Alphabets
		Unlike the Roman script, a vowel used after a consonant changes form and gets attached to the consonant.
		These are some examples of the juktakhars used in the Assamese script.
		Here is an example of the composition of an Assamese text in Latex and the output produced by it.
	www.assam.org /assam/language/alphabets.html (435 words)

	On Supreme Court’s Verdict On IMDT Act-II
		The statement that unabated influx of Bangladesh migrants has perceptibly changed the demographic pattern of Assam adversely affecting its language, scripts and culture and that the local Assamese speaking people are in danger of being reduced to a minority in their own state, are not borne by facts.
		In fact they were invited by a section of Assam’s leadership of the time for development of agriculture in Assam and all of them settled down in Assam by accepting Assamese language scripts and culture as their own.
		In spite of all these facts, how come, 40 to 50 years after independence a big hue and cry has been raised that local Assamese people would be reduced to a minority and that there is a big danger to the existence of Assamese language script and culture.
	pd.cpim.org /2005/0918/09182005_assam.htm (1065 words)

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