অসমীয়া
Lingo7 lets you read books with a translation under every sentence in 49 languages. Assamese is not one of them yet. Ask for it below, and see what adding it takes and what reading Assamese involves.
Lingo7 does not read Assamese yet: the app has no Assamese dictionary, audio or shelf of books. You can vote for Assamese here. Leave your email to vote; we add the most requested languages first and write to you once, when Assamese is ready.
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Spoken in: India (Assam; also neighbouring states of Northeast India)
Assamese is written in the Bengali-Assamese script, the same script as Bengali with two letters of its own, ৰ (r) and ৱ (w). It is an abugida: each consonant carries a built-in vowel, an open o, and other vowels attach as signs. A reader of Bengali can read Assamese letters at once but not always pronounce them, because several letters stand for different sounds.
The biggest difference is the sound x, like the ch of Scottish "loch", which Assamese has and Bengali does not. It is written with any of the three letters শ, ষ and স, so অসম (Assam) is read Oxom and the name of the language, অসমীয়া, is Oxomiya. The letters চ and ছ, ch sounds in Bengali, are read s in Assamese, and জ and য are read z.
Assamese literature was revived by the Vaishnavite movement of Sankardev in the 15th and 16th centuries, and Assamese writers have since won three Jnanpith Awards, India's oldest and highest literary award. The language also serves as a common language among many speech communities of Northeast India. For beginners, StoryWeaver, a free online library, has more than 500 illustrated Assamese stories sorted by reading level.
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Not yet. Lingo7 has no Assamese dictionary, audio or shelf of books, so a Assamese book would not get the sentence-by-sentence translation and word lookups the app is built on. The 49 languages it does read are listed on the home page.
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The letters, almost entirely: Assamese uses the same script apart from ৰ and ৱ. The pronunciation is different, though: শ, ষ and স are read x (as in Scottish "loch"), চ and ছ are read s, and জ and য are read z. The vocabulary differs too, so understanding a text takes study.
Because Assamese has a sound Bengali lacks, the x of Scottish "loch", and writes it with the old letters শ, ষ or স. The built-in vowel of each consonant is an open o, so অসম is read O-xo-m, and the name of the language, অসমীয়া, is Oxomiya.