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
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