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
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