Assamese language in East Goalpariya and Kamrupi, otherwise used extensively further east. The change of to and then to ; all these have been attributed to Tibeto-Burman influence by Dr. Chatterjee. Assamese, Odia and Bengali, in contrast to other Indo-Aryan languages, use the velar nasal (the English "ng" in "sing") extensively. In many languages, while the velar nasal is commonly restricted to preceding velar sounds, in Assamese it can occur intervocalically. This is another feature it shares with other languages of Northeast India, though in Assamese the velar nasal never occurs word-initially. Eastern Indic languages like Assamese, Bengali, Sylheti, and Odia do
Assamese alphabet keyboard locations of three characters unique to the Assamese script are depicted below:" The "Indian languages TRANSliteration" (ITRANS) the ASCII transliteration scheme for Indic scripts here, Assamese; the characterisations are given below: The following is a sample text in Assamese of the Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Assamese in Assamese alphabet Assamese in phonetic Romanization 1 Assamese in phonetic Romanization 2 Assamese in the International Phonetic Alphabet Gloss Translation The Bengali–Assamese script was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991 with the release of version 1.0. The Unicode block for Assamese and Bengali is U+0980–U+09FF: