Assamese - The Most Awesome Language

In this video, I talk about how the Assamese langyage is the awesomest, the most awesome language known to humankind. This was supposed to be an April Fools joke so...April Fools?
you should totally do what the video says to do at 7:01
Sources:
Jain, & Cardona, G. (2007). The Indo-Aryan languages. Routledge.
Tebay, S. & Zimmermann, E., (2020) “Exceptionality in Assamese vowel harmony: A phonological account”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:47 Assamese
1:53 Phonology
3:43 Writing System
4:22 Grammar
6:35 Awesomeness

[@LingoLizard]

7:01

[@kamalkrishnabaral]

I saw what you did there. 🧐😆

[@eyadalomar]

If you're hinting at the "to subscribe" part, it's funny but also kinda wrong. I can best translate "انكتب" to English as "has been written". I saw on Wiktionary that they have it as "to subscribe"; maybe this is where you found it. I personally never used or heard this word being used in this meaning, nor can I find it anywhere in other Arabic dictionaries where it means "to subscribe". Arabs today use "اشترك" to mean "to subscribe. Maybe, in case it's not actually wrong, it's a rarely used word or an old word where it's used to mean something like a name has been written on a list, thus "subscribing".

[@Somebodyherefornow]

@@eyadalomar NERD ALERTTTT

[@samuelr007ruiz9]

🧐

[@karamboubou8579]

also small nitpick here: there shouldn't be a diacritic below the ا in انكتب, because if there was a word before it becomes silent. like اشترك ishtaraka لقد اشترك laqadi shtaraka. kinda similar to liaison in french

[@LanguageSimp]

Hello Lingo Lizard. I am a big fan of your content. Love from Kyrgyzstan!

[@LanguageSimp]

@@ddegen plans change

[@shwabb1]

Wow, didn't expect to see the most attractive man in the universe here

[@juns5979]

@@ddegen hahahahahaha love this comment section

[@shwabb1]

@@ddegen you're clearly a cat

[@maneatingchocolate]

He has insulted Danish

[@prasantabhattacharya7495]

As a native speaker of Oxomiya (Assamese), this is awesome!

[@smallislander190]

Bro are u sure Assamese? I am kinda having some doubt with your names

[@aqua0187]

​@@HinduPAGANcowpissdrinkerRAKESH like your father

[@MasterCrow591]

@@HinduPAGANcowpissdrinkerRAKESH like you and your family

[@orokon6676]

Jaa na jaa kukur or puwali

[@MasterCrow591]

@@orokon6676 kuntu baperok koiso ?

[@LizApizaa]

The way you pronounced 'toi', 'tumi' and 'aapuni' was flawless like a native speaker. I didn't cringe like I usually do when I hear non-native speakers speak and heavily emphasise the consonants. Its too harsh sounding and Assamese is usually very soothing with soft pronunciation. So I think you truly understood the essence of the language.

[@saathvikbogam]

Bro made this video just to troll Bengalis and make puns. Absolutely Based.

[@sweetcorm]

And then insult the danish >:]

[@Computment]

Me a Bangladeshi : Dude, uncool

[@HinduPAGANcowpissdrinkerRAKESH]

Lol poor assame west bangal, no independence for you

[@Abheeeeee9]

​@@HinduPAGANcowpissdrinkerRAKESH 😂 ok and? We are the one who gave independence to you, i am from guwahati and we have better living conditions than kanglus

[@MasterCrow591]

@@HinduPAGANcowpissdrinkerRAKESH what's up field pooper

[@lakhyarajrajkhowa368]

We Assamese are very proud of our language and can take any measures to preserve it. Recently( jan 2020) there has been many mass protests against the government regarding the CAA act which poses as a danger to our language.

[@dipborah7978]

Not only our language brother. It posed a threat to our culture as well.

[@ringo567]

​@@elbichothegoat2464South Indians are darker skinned too, you call them kalus too?

[@boruahmohendra4349]

@Chhota Bheem ka bara bhai You are right.

[@boruahmohendra4349]

@Chhota Bheem ka bara bhai There is a difference between 'kalu' and 'kanglu'.

[@deacudaniel1635]

" Russian, you're cheating".I loved that😂😂😂 Before Assamese, the eastermost Indo-European language was probably Tocharian, which is also the coolest extinct Indo-European language.

[@gayvideos3808]

I was thinking the current one was Rohingya

[@noistivmuestiliv3300]

I too was thinking of Rohingya

[@feather1229]

Rohingya is also indo-aryan .

[@wildfirexd]

As someone from Assam I randomly found it , didn't understood anything but I gotta say it was Awesome.

[@mimansakalita5048]

EKKE LOL IMAN MOROM LOGA KE BUJAISE XD

[@2judaspriest]

@@mimansakalita5048 Tumar namtu bhal lagise ... its unique.. mimansa is one of the 6 philosophical school of hinduism

[@ky0tar0kikuchi]

Same aku buji napalu

[@knowledgejunction4985]

Eku buji napalu 😂

[@blitzkriegedvanhauten5261]

@@mimansakalita5048 Ayo mur logot koriba ni

[@fuckbrianer]

There is only one language which is suitable as a sacrifice, and you nailed it.

[@sagirahmed1601]

As an Assamese speaker, this video is ফাকিং awesome!

[@Computment]

Yeah you are ফাকিং right

[@Computment]

For those who are not bengali he said this is f*king awesoms

[@TheGamingMahi]

@@Computment yeah

[@somethingcreativeprobably5160]

​​​@@Computment I needed no clarification to know that XD

[@devogirichetia]

miya bangla clone thinks he s assamese lmao

[@akshayjyotideka9170]

Being an assamese myself I must say, that is some insane level of research 🤯

[@kklein]

fucking amazing video. my favourite of yours i think. i feel like i just went to a linguistics themed stand up comedy routine

[@TomteMiley]

Hejsan K!

[@randomperson2526]

Absolute banger of a vid as usual

[@conspiracy_risk7526]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that Assamese is one of the only Indo-European languages out of literally hundreds that doesn't have any sort of grammatical gender. Even English has vestigial grammatical gender in its pronouns.

[@SisterSunny]

yea... except like, Bangla? You know? The first whole minute of the video? Unless by 'no grammatical gender' you mean there is no separate word for 'boy' and 'girl' in which case that IS impressive.

[@conspiracy_risk7526]

@@SisterSunny I said one of the only ones, not the only one. Although your comment caused me to double check my statement and apparently I was slightly mistaken. Assamese, from what I can tell, does still have gendered third person pronouns, though grammatical gender is not marked otherwise.

[@kallelellacevej2234]

That’s awesome!

[@adityaranjanbiswal4044]

Ever Heard of Odia?

[@taimunozhan]

Yet it seems to be on its way to having fully-fledged Bantu-like noun classes with how those classifier-like affixes work

[@apix417]

As a native Oxomiya speaker, this makes me really happy and proud. Great video!

[@5yrniki]

bro i didn't even know ur language till i checked google and was surprised when i saw a language with the bengali alphabet that wasn't bengali?? 😲 so damn, well earned i found another video on bangladesh anyway ✨✨✨

[@kjrjkh]

​@@5yrnikiThat script is eastern nagari or Assamese-bengali script.

[@metaphonyenjoyer4386]

It looks like Assamese has metaphony rather than a full-on vowel harmony. These two processes are often called by the same name. I love both, however metaphony is my favourite as evidenced by my name and I concur than Assamese is awesome

[@LingoLizard]

What a shock, Metaphony Enjoyer enjoys metaphony!

[@buddhasatya2492]

As an Assam admirer, the script isn't considered the same as of Bengali due to subtle differences :) জয় আঈ অসম :)

[@mottom2657]

The two scripts are different but can be considered similar. I read somewhere that during the British rule, Assamese script was standardized following the Bengali script, which caused most Assamese and Bengali letters to look the same; Tirhuta of Mithila escaped this standardization and so many of their letters look different from Assamese-Bengali. We Bengalis have র, you have ৰ. We had ৰ but after Ishwar Chandra's standardization, ৰ died. You have ৱ, we had it but merged it with ব. দুইটা লিপি আলাদা, আবার একই বলা যায়। আমি এক জায়গায় পড়েছিলাম যে ব্রিটিশ আমলে আসামের লিপিকে বিধিবদ্ধ করা হয় বাংলা লিপির মত করে, তাই অসমীয়ার বেশিরভাগ বর্ণ বাংলার মতই দেখতে; মিথিলার তিরহুতা লিপিকে বিধিবদ্ধ করা হয়নি তাই তিরহুতার অনেক বর্ণ দেখতে অসমীয়া-বাংলার চেয়ে আলাদা। আমাদের বাংলায় আছে র, আপনাদের আসামে আছে ৰ। আমাদের দেশেও আগে ৰ লিখত, ঈশ্বরচন্দ্রের বিধিবদ্ধকরণের পর এখন চলে না। আপনাদের আছে ৱ যেটা আমরা ব এর সাথে মিশিয়ে দিয়েছি।

[@alahiri2002]

It’s the same script; we just don’t use all the same letters from it :) Consider the Latin script, where “ñ” is a distinct letter from “n” in Spanish while nonexistent in English. Still the same script. We Bengalis proudly share the beautiful পূর্ব নাগরী লিপি alongside the Assamese (and others).

[@buddhasatya2492]

@@alahiri2002 I graciously concede :) Thank you for such a beautiful linguistic expression of opinion surpassing the regional pride :)

[@alahiri2002]

@@buddhasatya2492 I see far too much division in our part of the world. Bangladesh continues to entirely deny the existence of languages like সিলেটি. There are Bengalis who don’t respect other languages like Assamese. There are those in Assam who still see Barak Valley Sylhetis and Bengalis as outsiders. What is there to gain from any of this? Rather than reinforcing these petty squabbles, I posit to you that we would all be much better off as a whole focusing our energy on sharing the beauty in our languages and cultures to the outside world :)

[@buddhasatya2492]

@@alahiri2002 It's such a refreshing breeze to find someone whose thoughts are similar to mine. I personally know and have lived the linguistic chauvinism's counter effects personally. I come from Bihar, our languages are beautiful, they have independent literature yet however the mindset is/was such that their usage in formal settings was generally frowned upon by the "educated" citizenry a while back, nowadays things are finally changing and I am hopeful :)

[@duluozah]

I literally never saw a video talking about the Assamese language. Thanks for making this video.🔝

[@sameerpharma4906]

I can speak Maithili, Hindi, English and Assamese. Can't believe how accurate this video is! Great job! 👍

[@lizzybach4254]

I studied Assamese for 8 years just for this moment! If you're curious, the local education board here is SEBA. From Class 1 to 8, you study three languages- English, Hindi and Assamese, at least in the school I studied in. From grade 9, you have to study only 1 language (Excluding English which needs to be studied till grade 12). That language may be Assamese, Hindi, Bodo (Pronounced like Boro), Bengali, Nepali and many other languages.

[@fardin4243]

Correct same here but I am continuing Assamese after 8th

[@farukhsheikh5790]

In 11th and 12th class, English is mandatory, and there is also an MIL(Major Indian Language) subject. I took alternative English as my MIL, but many had taken Assamese and hindi in the college.

[@risyanthbalaji805]

As an Indian,I can confirm that it is pronounced as awesome (ˈɔːsəm) and not Assam (əˈsɒm )

[@Arnikaaa]

@Bilw it was a joke

[@rayjynx]

​@Bilw not even that, dont impose your hindi pronounciation.

[@rayjynx]

@Bilw it's not the standard so dont try to correct people on an international forum with your local pronounciation.

[@o0...957]

​​​@Bilw I think it has to do with the fact that we Bodo people don't really care much about Assamese language because it's not our Native language 😅. But in Udalguri district we do seem to pronounce Axom and Asom interchangeably. (I'm guessing you are Boro too since you have Bilw as username)

[@o0...957]

@Bilw Boro mansi lwgw mwngwn hwnna sanakhwimwn ang😆

[@hereisabhi]

Omg thanks for covering the Assamese language, Never expected this, but this is so awesome 👍🏼, (btw তই (toi) in many cases is not actually rude, because it is even used between friends who are really close, and also very commonly among siblings and family)

[@CookieFonster]

i can tell that you sound really excited to talk about assamese throughout this video, and it's really endearing. this was such a fun exploration of a language that i previously knew absolutely nothing about.

[@skateplayzhindigaming5177]

ASSAMESE! WOW! Thank you. As a Khati Axomiya, you made me proud.

[@xolang]

the shift from š/ś to x happened not only in Spanish and Assam, but also in Danish's brother language, Svenska, and Pashtun/Pakhtun. Even the name of the language has the two variation: PaSHtun and PaKHtun. s- shifting to h- (which is also to be found in Greek) happens in my father tongue. Ossum video btw. Thank you!

[@rayexception4590]

Seeing that comment on the 1971 Bengali Genocide hurts me. As a Pakistani, even though my nation is refusing to apologize, please know that I am sorry for what we did.

[@Inescapeium]

It's fine. This isn't your fault. Innocent Pakistanis shouldn't be held accountable for something the government and military did just for power.

[@jeongbun2386]

Agreed, but the people of a country are not responsible for the actions of their government

[@milfbangerbhabhilover9771]

Pakistan is a failed state that should be dismantled. It is a western proxy to keep south asia weak and poor

[@fgvcosmic6752]

Lol dw it's not you who did anything. The only people who need to be sorry are those who perpetrated it and those who deny it

[@HinduPAGANcowpissdrinkerRAKESH]

Don’t regret. Indian hindoos are more savage

[@nuduw]

First of all, very well made video, really appreciate it. Here are a few points though: 1)There are IE languages geographically spoken even more eastwards than Ôxômiya, like Sylheti and Changma 2) The Telugu sentence for 'I understand you' is 'నేను నిన్ను అర్థం చేసుకున్నాను', the translation you have there at 7:13 looks like a Google Translate output, which is expected to not make any sense more often than not, at least for Telugu.

[@sagirahmed1601]

Assamese spreads more eastwards than Sylheti and Chakma (which are spoken in the same longitude as central dialects of Assamese). But well, Assamese still may not be the Easternmost IE language, as an Assamese based pidgin, Nefamese is spread more eastwards. In the current time tho, we find several IA languages in much eastern regions, like English in New Zealand, French in Tahiti etc.

[@randomperson2526]

Telugu speaker here Yeah the telugu sentence in the vid was missing the verb. Was just about to point that out

[@taube637]

The definite numerals/noun classifiers were quite an interesting thing to hear about, very assam!

[@ziarahman3406]

Please do a video on the Sylheti language. It is closely related and shares similarities to Assamese and Bangla, but it is far more understudied compared to its sister languages as it is seen politically as just a Bengali dialect

[@AcedVidz]

Thank you! I was looking for this comment. Sylheti needs more recognition!

[@lawrence6139]

But it is a different language actually. Reedit the comment

[@AcedVidz]

@@lawrence6139 The original comment doesn't say Sylheti is not its own language?

[@mukundasharma8693]

as an assamese i am aware of the struggles of sylhetti speaker being labeled as a bengali dialect speaker. i support your cause.

[@parthibhayat]

Some call it a dialect of Bangla, some call it its own language. Living in sylhet for the time, it definitely feels like it's own. This and the language on Chittagong xd

[@debasishrabha166]

ভিডিও টো চাই আনন্দ পালোঁ ধন্যবাদ, অসমীয়া ভাষাৰ সন্দৰ্ভত ইমান গভীৰ গৱেষণা কৰি তথ্য বুৰ প্ৰকাশ কৰাৰ বাবে।

[@pradyutdas7358]

Awesome analysis brother. Appreciate your efforts to make videos on languages that generally people don't think much about in our times but are definitely filled with awesomeness that needs to be seen. ❤

[@hemanthnair1290]

Linguistics KZbin seems to be one of the most wholesome communities out there, judging by the comments under the videos.

[@twentyone_cat]

Assamese is the only language I know of to have a 4 way distinction among plosives with voiced, voiceless, aspirated and breathy; that doesn't also have retroflex stops.

[@mikko4739]

As an Assamese I feel really good that it is getting recognition.

[@fardin4243]

As an Assamese thank for making this video highlighting this beautiful language Awesome may I say.

[@godofthunderm9116]

Thank you for making a video on our language, really appreciate it...

[@TGFN97]

জয় আই অসম ❤ Jai aai Axom

[@eranjin]

man you dont have enough subs, great vids 🔥🔥

[@mrinaljyotisaloi9251]

Thanks for covering our language.. it's always awesome

[@nkanyezihlatshwayo3601]

The way definite numerals work is eerily similar to the how noun classes are used the Bantu languages, which i did _not_ expect; but is very cool:)) - except that we don’t have a definite/indefinite distinction, at least not in Zulu, definiteness is normally marked by stress (usually a H tone)

[@Shadow-bh8pj]

As a native speaker i can confirm that he is totally flawless And if you come to the east Assam side it's the most standard Assamese spoken area And the mix of slangs just add a spice to the language

[@izumisahil9718]

Actually the middle Assamese dialect is the standard one !

[@Shadow-bh8pj]

@@izumisahil9718 let's not start an argument like which is standard i think it usually differs from place to place Btw which district

[@NayanJB]

@@Shadow-bh8pj You started it!🙂

[@eunyoon3635]

​@@izumisahil9718 it's not

[@izumisahil9718]

@@eunyoon3635 Koreans shouldn't interept in the matters of Assamese

[@Pakanahymni]

Danish is the most awesome of them all; what other language has TRANSCENDED syllables ??? It's just a stream of vowels and semivowels, like guiding the language out of your mouth with your tongue.

[@geckofeet]

Well, there are various retching sounds as well.

[@NayanJB]

🤣

[@TomteMiley]

Dansk er et dejligt sprog Although it's still a good running gag

[@chandrahasanand4622]

Heyyy, one small error with the Telugu example you’ve given at 7:14 - నేను మీరు అర్థం (nēnu mīru artham) doesn’t really make sense… it’s like broken telugu. the right way to say it would be నాకు మీరు అర్థమయ్యారు (nāku mīru arthamayyāru). (Funny thing is most ppl don’t say that either, there’s no real reason to say this, it’s much more sensible to say ‘I understood’ (నాకు అర్థమయ్యంది - nāku arthamayyindi). But overall i loved the video on assamese, it’s an interesting language, pls continue making videos like this.

[@sapphirefire291]

Great work on this video. Could you do a video on Newar (or Newari or Nepal Bhasa) because it was a language that I heard a lot growing up, but never got to learn. Also there aren't that many videos on the language.

[@ridip182]

Your Assamese accent pretty good ❤

[@knarzary390]

Drink and eat (khuwa) is same in spoken Assamese version Eg , I drink ( Khao) Pepsi. I eat (Khao) cake .

[@yanwato9050]

huh very interesting! those verb conjugations look complicated though 😓

[@martinomasolo8833]

Suggestion: Khoghni/Shughni, and the Pamir language sprachbund, with some really awesome features (like deictic gender) and rich history!

[@mangc_hing]

Can you do a video on Kham-ti language , it is spoken in Arunachal Pradesh (north of Assam) it's a kra-dai branch language and in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, out of 26 major tribes in Arunachal Pradesh Only khamti people have Their own Writing script (Lik-tai) which they brought over from the old Tai County in Burma around early 1800s. If you make a video about them don't confuse them with Tai Ahom they came to India much earlier from around the same place in Burma (in 1300) and have assimilated with Assamese culture and vice versa, we are related lingually but there are many differences.

[@o0...957]

I would also love to see a video on Khamti and Phake. I also want to see one on Bodo because that's my native language.

[@MrSwswx]

There are few khamti speakers in Assam too... Love to know similarities between all the Eastern languages of Assam and Arunachal... And similarities between Adi, Galo Mishing... And Garo, Bodo, Dimasa, Kokborok

[@al3xa723]

POP OFFFFFF LOVE U STUFF

[@manashdb]

Assamese is the best language to learn. Kela.

[@lexaed7680]

Hey Lingolizard, will you make a video about the Korean language I guess it is an interesting topic because it has two variations - north Korean dialect and south Korean. Also like it is the easiest alphabet yet one of the hardest language in the world, I guess it would be a great video since I did not really find a lot of good videos about it.

[@vedantsharma9495]

As an Assamese, this video is indeed awesome.. অতি সুন্দৰ

[@Bhargab_Saikia]

😁

[@heyhianxietwo]

Kia ora. Just a teeny little correction on the Māori sentence - "e mohio ahau ki a koe". "Mohio" needs either a macron, or a double "o", so mōhio/moohio. And the non past tense you've used is a bit archaic- more often for non-past tenses we'd use "ka". Unless you were maybe going for e mōhio ana ahau ki a koe, which is in the imperfect tense. One last thing - mōhio means more like "to know (something)" rather than to understand, a better word may've been mātau. Excellent video nonetheless, and I appreciate you using Te Reo Māori! Mauri ora (peace be with you).

[@Inescapeium]

Bro I never imagined my comment being on this video lol

[@Enceladus2106]

May I suggest my native language Dutch as an alternate sacrifice? We are similair to the Danes in many ways and I think having a hideous language is one of them.

[@LingoLizard]

Dutch is cool and you can’t tell me otherwise

[@torrawel]

Dutch is super cool. Echt. Isn't ER the most wonderful thing in the world? Zoals ik al zei, supercool (om met Mark Rutte te spreken 😂). Besides that, Vlaams en Surinaams Nederlands are also Dutch. You can't convince me that those versions of Dutch aren't cool😉

[@metaphonyenjoyer4386]

@@LingoLizard I for one don't think these are mutually exclusive. I consider Dutch both hideous and cool

[@mattemathias3242]

I love how dutch people always hate their language 😂😂 But it is cap that my guy said danish is not awesome

[@torrawel]

@@metaphonyenjoyer4386 I don't!! 😉😝

[@Alam_Khan521]

I am a bengali. I clicked this video purely to learn about assamese language. Didn’t know i would be trolled at the beginning.

[@axiqlyr9944]

'Money' in Assamese is টকা * দুটা সাধু [Assamese Vowel (?) ( স্বৰবৰ্ণ)= 11 অ আ ই ঈ উ ঊ ঋ এ ঐ ও ঔ ] (I might be wrong , please do check it out again)

[@sskpsp]

Small thing about the Telugu example at 7:14. But first, thanks for the video on Assamese and Indian languages in general! So...the Telugu example _nēnu mīru artham_ glosses something like 1S-NOM 2S-FOR-NOM / 3P-NOM meaning-NOM. _I understand you_ would be inflected like this: _nēnu mimalni artham cēstunnānu_ lit. _I you sense am making_ but really that is awk to say and people would rather say _(nāku) mīru artham avutunnāru_ lit. _(to me) you sense are becoming_. There's a lot of dative constructions in Telugu.

[@nishipalphukan2452]

4:58 it should be xadhu duta, not xadhu dutu. Thanks a lot btw.

[@parthibhayat]

I expected a lot more bengalees than Assamese people in the comments, but regaedless am proud to see a video related to the language i speak :)

[@user09832]

As a native Assamese speaker I approve this

[@obnoxious22]

Assamese is easier to learn because it doesn't have gender specific verbs. For example in English - that girl is doing something, that boy is doing something. In Hindi - woh ladki kuch kar rahi hai, woh ladka kuch kar raha hai. In Assamese - tai kiba kori ase, he kiba kori ase. Simple

[@bhashashikkhakendro]

Yeah , Eastern Indo -Aryan languages like Bangla Oxomiyaa, Odia lacks grammartical gender . Though Oxomiyaa has gender distinction in the third person pronoun. Fir example Taai - she Xi -- he ...

[@sohomchandrachandra8446]

Sanskrit has divided into Pali and Prakrit.....Prakrit has further subdivided into Bangla, Ahomiya, Oriya etc.... You will be surprised how similar these sounds (as they are from same family)...if you know anyone of the language you can understand what others are saying in their own language....however the accents sometimes acts as a barrier....being a kolkata Bangali I sometimes can't understand what a Malda or Khidderpore Bangali is saying...

[@caniget600subscriberswitho5]

I'm maithili and bengali sounds very familiar

[@mattemathias3242]

LingoLizard: *likes unique languages* Also LingoLizard: "Every language is awesome except danish..."

[@zidanidane]

the pun title did not even ever so vaguely from a mile away work for me

[@moinuddinkhan593]

As a Bengali, We love our sister language অসমিয়া & Odia.

[@sunitadey876]

Dude they have killed our people irrespective of religion.

[@Ghazeee]

​@@sunitadey876we kill kola lendu bongals

[@JayK47a]

Dude im from assam and interested in linguistics and coincidentally you made a video on my lanaguge and i didnt even search for this video haha . Can you make a video on a another dead language relative with assam called Tai Ahom ? As always ধন্যবাদ

[@gacioski]

4:32 I made the exact same thing in my conlang without knowing it existed in any natlangs, I thought that was so original 😢

[@Prateek_kumar69]

I m Assamese bro. Soo proud Any Assamese in the comment section ?

[@mottom2657]

One trivium. In Urdu and Marathi, the retroflex consonants are actually retroflex. In Bengali, the 'retroflex consonants' are not retroflex but alveolar just like English, unless you hypercorrect yourself. The dental consonants are purely dental though.

[@vatsalj7535]

In Urdu and Hindi they are also not true retroflex only Dravidian languages have those but yes Bengali ones are more further away from retroflex They are not exactly alveolar except in really eastern dialects

[@lancer227]

As an Assamese, this vid is quite awesome. 👌

[@naan000]

yay he's back

[@himimedak656]

as an assamese this is video is certified awesomeness!!!

[@shiranami_ryujino]

Suddenly found the video on my feed i must say it was the best Today i found on internet

[@fex_indian]

thank you সুদুমনি

[@Bhargab_Saikia]

😂😂😂

[@samuelr007ruiz9]

We NEED a video about the languages of Bhutan

[@myspleenisbursting4825]

7:13 a little correction, kursi nila would be weird in this context because nila is like a formal/poetic word. Usually people say Kursi biru Love your videos from Indonesia ❤

[@mollof7893]

Everything is awesome!

[@raktimphukan7523]

Very well made.

[@jakeferrison2487]

2:17 C, Ch, J, Jh into S , Z is similar consonant shift to Burmese language

[@Aresofthevoid]

Will you make a video about Dravidan languages?

[@user-hm1zb8js5i]

I didn't know there was an Indo-Aryan language that didn't have retroflex consonants.

[@hunkwasbisyan007]

As an Assamese, and seeing many “friendly” comments from the Bangladeshis, I am super SUPER GLAD that Maulana Bhashani’s plan of putting the ENTIRE NE India into East Pakistan/East Bengal FAILED, miserably 😊😊😊. Joi ai Assam 🙏🕉 Jai Hind 🇮🇳🙏🕉

[@justsomeguy335]

You don't know what a joke is

[@hunkwasbisyan007]

@@justsomeguy335 A lot of "Joke" from the Bangladeshis dont even goes to the level of Joke.

[@rayjynx]

​@@justsomeguy335 oh boy you'd be surprised how many bengalis exist with superiority complex which makes them leave some pretty nasty comments. might have to scroll down a bit on the comment section.

[@ntard]

@@hunkwasbisyan007 do yall hate bangaldeshis or west bengalis or both

[@parthibhayat]

wha

[@mottom2657]

From Bangladesh, I can understand some written Assamese but I'm yet to listen to actual spoken Assamese. Bengali and Assamese have some sort of dialect continuum, it isn't obvious initially but there is. Historically Bengal and Assam have not interacted with each other that much until the British Era, and then there are lots of bad blood stemming from the British rule which are still going on. I hope for a future where Assamese and Bengali people can have some more peace with each other than now.

[@dr_naVed]

Love from Assam❤

[@troytomohenjodaro]

Assamese is the eastern most indo European language ❤

[@rxeii8224]

2:14 it's actually টকা /toka/ and not টাকা /taka/ in Assamese.

[@deadeye_john]

Can you do a video on Canadian French?

[@ontheline10]

Awesome 👍😎

[@jordanwesley263]

I've wanted to learn Assamese for a bit but I don't really know how to go about it

[@mysterious7215]

Hi I am from Assam It's really easy you know All the best 👍👍

[@rayjynx]

youtube has tutorials. some channels like learn assamese are helpful, learn the daily use phrases/words first. and always remember... kela main

[@musicmakersmusic7655]

Its really easy

[@johndrippergaming]

@@rayjynx oi kela hehehe

[@Bhargab_Saikia]

​@@johndrippergaming 😂

[@houiinkyouma8387]

Wow ...good seeing my own language here

[@Maru5410]

Sometimes when i speak assamese my non assamese frnds sometimes thinks that i am speaking some spanish or french 🤣🤣

[@Sarah-ci3os]

as a shyleti speaker this was so awesome because so similar and so awesome

[@torrawel]

Great video, great conclusion (although Danish is very cool 😂). However... Indo european languages in general... I find a bit boring. They may be cool just like the other ones, but you showed Papua for a reason, right ? Now, those languages or the languages of the north American west coast... They're simply more than cool or awesome. There isn't even a proper word in English to describe their awesomeness 😂🎉🤗😜🍾

[@PoojaAxomiya]

বিৰাট ভাল লাগিল❤ ধন্যবাদ

[@bhashashikkhakendro]

Hi মই বঙালী কিন্তু মোৰ অসমীয়া ভাষা আৰু সংস্কৃতি বৰ ভাল লাগে 😊মই অসমীয়া কব পাৰোঁ বঙালী আৰু অসমীয়া বন্ধু বন্ধু আমি শত্ৰু নহওঁ অনেকে এইটো মনত কৰে যে অসমীয়া ভাষা বাংলাৰ উপভাষা আকৌ কিছুমান অসমীয়া লোকে ও মনত কৰে যে বাংলা ভাষা অসমীয়াৰ উপভাষা কিন্তু সেইটো নহয় অসমীয়া আৰু বাংলা দুটি পৃথক ভাষা কিন্তু পৰস্পৰৰ লগত ঘনিষ্ঠ সম্পৰ্ক যুক্ত।

[@Ghazeee]

​@@bhashashikkhakendroe kola lendu bongal katim durgarand sudim

[@majorkarpov137]

Being a bengali, learning very different pronunciations of the alphabet than what we are used to is mind numbing

[@rayjynx]

it definitely requires a lot of practice. as a native, it just comes to us automatically so we dont actually realise how difficult it is for people who are learning 😅 especially the voiceless velar fricative, which is omnipresent. please dont mispronounce it! wishing you the best of luck! জয় আই অসম।

[@samthegamerlol]

As a native Bengali speaker, Thank you so much :)

[@Leathercompany069]

This ain't Bengali, you fish lover.

[@samthegamerlol]

@@Leathercompany069 Assamese and bengali are very similar, that's why, and I really don't like eating fish

[@Leathercompany069]

@@samthegamerlol Huh. First time I've heard of a Bengali who doesn't like fish 🤔. Anyway, don't take it as an offense I meant it as a joke.

[@Ghazeee]

​@@Leathercompany069😂😂 kola bongal lewra bilak

[@Leathercompany069]

@@Ghazeee Iman khong nokoriba bondhu 🥶

[@sujata15164]

❤

[@Gyanateet2077]

Being a native speaker of the language I find this amazing!

[@sudatkhan]

I really don't like it when people who are unaware of the political and historical nuances make videos on Northeast India/Bengal. 1. Nefamese is no longer spoken as the main creole is now Hindi-based. 2. All Eastern Indo-Aryan langauges descend from Magadhi Prakit. The Bengali-Assamese language family (also referred to as Gauda-Kamrupa) was one of the Magadhi Prakit descendants. There then becomes a divergence. Western/Central/Southeastern Bengali-Assamese languages descend from an intermediary "Gauda Language" (This include Bangla, Syloti, Citainga etc.). Northeastern languages descend from an intermediary language known as Kamrupa Prakrit. Within Kamrupa Prakit there was a split, where eastern Kamrupa Prakrit devoloped into the Central and Eastern Dialects of Assamese and western Kamrupa Prakrit developed into KRNB (Kamtapuri, Rajbangshi, North Bengal lects). KRNB is a dialect continuum of languages (unlike Assamese, these languages were never standarized). It should be noted however, in recent years a standardization in Cooch Behar, West Bengal (called Kamtapuri) and a standardization in Jhapa, Nepal (called Rajbanshi) have become prominent. They stretch from Western Assam through Northern West Bengal/ North Bangladesh into Southeastern Nepal. The image you showed in the map is political and NOT linguistically accurate. Western Gaolpariya is part of the KRNB languages and is not the same langauge as Assamese. Eastern Gaolpariya developed as a transitionary dialect between the KRNB and Assamese languages. Assam (just like Bangladesh) has a history of reclassifying languages as "dialects" of either Assamese or Bengali to promote "ethnic unity", but in reality just erases the unique history of said languages. There are other Bengali-Assamese languages that have coloquially been considered descendant from a "Gauda Language", but these are languages that arose after an indigenous community "Aryanized" (there was a language shift into Indo-Aryan, or they adopted a local Indo-Aryan language that mixed with their previous language). Examples of these languages would include Hajong (originally Tibeto-Burman), Chakma (originally Tibeto-Burman), Tangchangya (originally Tibeto-Burman), Kharia Thar (originally Austro-asiatic) etc. Finally, Syloti and Kokborok. Both Syloti and Kokborok (along with Dimasa Kachari and Barman Thar) has historically used Syloti Nagri NOT the Bengali-Assamese script. Syloti is an Indo-Aryan language that became divergent from an intermediary "Gauda Language" very quickly as it adopted phonological attributes from the surrounding Tibeto-Burman languages (Rabha, Koch, old Hajong, Dimasa Kachari and Kokborok). Sylot Nagri was first popularized in the 15th century while writing Islamic puthis (poetry), but quickly spread and became the standard script used in the Surma and Barak Valleys. By the end of the 16th century, the Kachari Kingdom (ruled by the Dimasa Kachari tribe) adopted the Syloti language as the offical court language of the kingdom and used it as a lingua franca between Bodo-Kachari Tribes (indigenous tribes in the Barak Valley who all spoke Boro-Garo languages but had low mutual intelligibility). The erasure of Syloti Nagri and the (forced) adoption of the Bengali-Assamese script was a very recent phenomenon, not becoming widespread until the 1940-1950s.

[@Lord_Alhaitham]

Wow thnx as an Assamese learnt a lot from your comment