Assamese people Assam" by Europeans till 1821, when the Ahom kingdom became part of the Burmese Empire. After Assam became part of British India, the newly constituted province came to be known by its new anglicised name Assam after its largest constituent, and the name "Assamese / Asamiya" came to be associated with the Assamese language which was erstwhile known as Kamrupi. According to Yasmin Saikia, "the group that now identifies as Tai–Ahom were historically seen as the Assamese people. However, the term ethnic Assamese is now associated by the Indian government at Delhi with the Assamese speaking Indo–Aryan, Tibeto-Burman and Austric
Assamese language features: Verbs in Assamese are negativized by adding before the verb, with picking up the initial vowel of the verb. For example: Assamese has a huge collection of classifiers, which are used extensively for different kinds of objects, acquired from Sino-Tibetan languages. A few examples of the most extensive and elaborate use of classifiers given below: In Assamese, classifiers are generally used in the "numeral + classifier + noun" (e.g. 'one man') or the "noun + numeral + classifier" (e.g. 'one man') forms. Most verbs can be converted into nouns by the addition of the suffix . For example, ('to