Assamese people dispute over the definition of Assamese people, in general; the people belonging to the state of Assam are referred as Assamese people. The lack of a definition has put stumbling blocks in implementing "clause 6" of the Assam Accord, an agreement signed by the activists of the Assam Movement and the Government of India in 1985. Since a legal definition is important to provide "constitutional, legislative and cultural" safeguards to the Assamese people, the Government of Assam had formed a ministerial committee to finalize the definition in March 2007. To address the "clause 6" issue, AASU had announced a definition
Romanisation of Assamese SRA Romanisation Assamese in CCRA Romanisation Assamese in IAST Romanisation Assamese in the International Phonetic Alphabet Translation Romanisation of Assamese Romanisation of Assamese is the representation of the Assamese language in the Latin script. Various ways of romanisation systems of Assamese are used. The IPA transcription is provided in the rightmost column, representing the most common pronunciation of the glyph in Assamese, with the various romanisations described above. The following table includes examples of Assamese words romanised by using the various systems mentioned above. The following is a sample text in Assamese of the Article 1 of the Universal Declaration