Assamese language and culture

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ASSAMESE

FROM WIKIPEDIA Assamese or Asamiya or Oxomiya is the language spoken by some of the natives of the state of Assam in northeast India. It is also the official language of Assam. It is spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states. Small pockets of Assamese speakers can be found in Bhutan and Bangladesh. Immigrants from Assam have carried the language with them to other parts of the world. The eastern most of Indo-European languages, it is spoken by over 20 million people.
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GENERAL LINKS

The Assamese Language
www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~talukdar/assam/language/assamlang.html

Assamese is the principal language of Assam. Here are a few articles on Assamese language and literatures: Some notes on the Assamese language, its history, development and differences with Bengali .

Mailjol, free email service in Indian languages
www.mailjol.com

Free web based email service in Assamese, bengali, english, gujarati, hindi,kannada, marathi, malayalam, punjabi, oriya, tamil & telugu.

AssamFaithweb
www.assam.faithweb.com/

AssamFaithweb presents several aspects of Assamese Language and culture including free Assamese Bengali, Baro and Manipuri fonts for Internet use. While Assam is the Northeast State of Republic of India spreading beneath the foothills of Eastern Himalayas history dating back to Vadic Age. Over twenty five million people speaks Assamese language.

ASSAMESE ON THE WEB
www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/9674/homelist.html

For those interested to uplift Assam, my sweet land

Mumbai/Bombay: Indian Languages: Assamese
theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/history/people/language/assamese.html

ONLINE BILINGUAL TEXTS

ONLINE COURSES

Language Browser: Assamese
us.imdb.com/Sections/Languages/Assamese/

Language Browser Related Pages Your IMDb guide to Assamese language movies. This page contains a list of interesting reports based around the 43 titles in the IMDb with Assamese dialogue. The form below allows you to search the database for titles with Assamese dialogue only.

ONLINE GRAMMARS

Linguistic Resources
www.logos.it/

LINGUISTIC RESOURCES Presently there are 530 Glossaries Available Search by.. Language ALL (AFAN) OROMO ABKHAZIAN AFAR AFRIKAANS ALBANIAN ALGERIAN DARJA AMHARIC ARABIC ARMENIAN ASSAMESE ASTURIAN AYMARA AZERBAIJANI BANTU BASHKIR BASQUE BENGALI...

InProS Indian Language fonts
www.inpros.com/

Samples of fonts, Hindi, Gujrati, Punjabi, Marathi, Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil and more.

ONLINE DICTIONARIES

The Alternative Assamese Dictionary
notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/Assamese.html

The Alternative Assamese Dictionary Assamese slang - a part of The Alternative Dictionaries collection. TAD is being reconstructed - input i

ONLINE NEWSPAPERS/MAGAZINES

Untitled
www.iindia.com/otheve.htm

News update every Three hours Directly from India

ONLINE RADIO/TV

ONLINE CULTURE, RELIGION, LITERATURE, ARTS AND MUSIC

Assamese Songs
www.cstp.umkc.edu/personal/dmedhi/assam/kootir.html

This page allows you to play (and download) Assamese songs (including a few by Bhupen Hazarika).

The World of Assamese Poetry
www.geocities.com/bipuljyoti/poetry.html

Contains a collection of Assamese poetry in English translation, including brief biographical sketch of the poets and reviews of Assamese poetry.

INTERESTING SITES

The Bihu Culture of Assamese People
www.cs.uccs.edu/~kalita/assam/news/articles/GirishBarua1997.html

Dr. Girish Baruah Bihu is the most important non-religious festival of the Assamese people. It is observed by all irrespective of class and caste. It has been being observed from time immemorial.

Ethnologue: Bangladesh
www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Bang.html

Languages of Bangladesh. Part of _Ethnologue: Languages of the World_, 13th Edition; Barbara F. Grimes, Editor; Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1996.

Ethnologue: India
www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Inda.html

Languages of India. Part of _Ethnologue: Languages of the World_, 13th Edition; Barbara F. Grimes, Editor; Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1996.

SOFTWARE, BOOKS, TAPES ETC.

Assamese font for IBM PC/Macintosh
www.flash.net/~patelvk/Assamese.html

Assamese language alphabets are very akin to the Bengali language alphabets. Assamese Vijay font is 98% identical to Bengali Vijay Font. If you like to see the sample output on screen then you should look at Bengali page.

Aadarsha Ratne Charity all About Ratne Font/Script
www.assam.faithweb.com/Ratne/index_ratne.html

Aadarsha Ratne Charity offering free Assamese, Bodo, Bengali, Hindi, Manipuri & Telugu Ratne Internet fonts & e-mail writing solutions; Jagatguru font, Lata fonts & other style fonts; PC/MAC/Unix solutions ...

TRANSLATORS/INTERPRETERS

Forum Home Page
www.logos.it/dictionary/owa/forum.main

The LOGOS Forum Translators of all countries, unite! All for one and one for all! Traduttori di tutto il mondo unitevi! Alle für einen, einer für alle! Übersetzer aller Länder, vereinigt euch! Tutti per uno e uno per tutti! Traducteurs du monde...

SCHOOLS, COURSES, INSTITUTIONS

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