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

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

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.

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

" 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.

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.

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.

As an Assamese speaker, this video is ফাকিং awesome!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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)

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!

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 🇮🇳🙏🕉

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

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.

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.

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

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

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. ❤

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

as a linguistics student whose mother tongue is Assamese it's so wild finding a video of assamese like this!! One thing that deserves to be talked about is the fact Assamese is also one of very few (if not the only?) Indo-European languages which exhibits ideophony! You can insert onomatopoeias, motion words, or vibe-type words as adverbials in the middle of sentences without sounding childish or odd

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.

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

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.

As a native Assamese speaker I approve this

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

জয় আই অসম ❤ Jai aai Axom

man you dont have enough subs, great vids 🔥🔥

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.

Assamese is the best language to learn. Kela.

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

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)

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...

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

ধন্যবাদ! বৰ সুন্দৰ কৈ কৰিছা।

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.

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

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

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

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 :)

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).

Your Assamese accent pretty good ❤

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.

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.

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

Assam, the seat of the legendary Ahom Kingdom that was the only Indian kingdom to not have been conquered by the Mughals, when the Ahom Kingdom defeated the Mughals. My profile picture is the coat of Arms of the Ahom Kingdom. The Mythical winged dragon. Assam, the heart of Asia that houses people of Indo-Aryan, Austroasiatic, Dravidian and Mongoloid people. The place where the East meets the West. Famous for the Assam Tea, which is drunk around the world. The region to have the oldest Pavilion in Asia. The Rang-Ghar, known as the Colosseum of the East. Assam's historical achievements are legendary.

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

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

'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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

As an Assamese, this vid is quite awesome. 👌

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

We NEED a video about the languages of Bhutan

Bro I never imagined my comment being on this video lol

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

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 ❤

I'm proud that I speak the most Awesome language 👀👻

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

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

POP OFFFFFF LOVE U STUFF

Love from Assam, India 🇮🇳

yay he's back

There were 99 comments so thought I'd add one.

thank you সুদুমনি

বিৰাট ভাল লাগিল❤ ধন্যবাদ

At 7:18, the translation for "I understand you" in Telugu is actually "Nēnu ninnu ardhaṁ cēsukunnānu (informal)" or "Nēnu mimmalni ardhaṁ cēsukunnānu (formal)". Nenu miru artham doesn't make any sense as a sentence as the words are literal translations of the individual words of the English sentence " I understand you".

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

Assamese is the eastern most indo European language ❤

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

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.

Awesome 👍😎

Will you make a video about Dravidan languages?

Very well made.

ধন্যবাদ

Love from Assam❤

This is one of the most sweetest language in the world along with Bengali.

The video is absolutely lovely , but could you review the Manipuri language?

1:05 "if we don't count Russian" Well, what about English (in Australia and New Zealand)?