* Assamese: Guwa ( গ ু ৱ া) or Tamol ( ত া ম ো ল ).

The music of Assam ( Assamese: অসমৰ স ং গ ী ত ), a state in the northeastern part of India, can be divided into various categories of folk music.

Turmeric is commonly called ' Halodhi ' in Assamese, Pasupu in Telugu, Kaha ( කහ ) in Sinhala, Manjal ( மஞ ் சள ் ) in Tamil literally meaning yellow color, Arisina ( ಅರ ಿ ಸ ಿ ಣ ) in Kannada, Haridra ( हर ि द ् र ) in Sanskrit, Haldi ( حلدی ) in Urdu and Haldar or Haldi ( हल ् द ी) in Hindi, Haladi ( ହଳଦ ୀ) in Oriya, ' Halud ( হল ু দ )' in Bengali Besar ( ब ॆ स ा र ) in Nepalese.

The garment has numerous other names such as, ଧ ୋ ତ ି Dhotī in Oriya, called ધ ૉ ત િ ય ુ Dhotiyu in Gujarati, চওৰক ী য ় ক া Suriya in Assamese, ধ ু ত ি Dhuti in Bengali, ಢ ೊ ತ ಿ/ ಕಛ ್ ಛ ೆ ಪನ ್ ಛ ೆ Dhoti or Kachche Panche in Kannada ,‌ Dhotar, Angostar, Aad-neschey or Pudve in Konkani, മ ു ണ ് ട ് Mundu in Malayalam, ధ ో త ీ/ ప ం చ ె Dhoti or Pancha in Telugu, ध ो तर Dhotar in Marathi, ਲ ਼ਾ ਛ Laacha in Punjabi and " Mardaani " in cities of UP, Bihar, Terai, வ ே ட ் ட ி vEtti or வ ே ஷ ் ட ி vEshti in Tamil.

Finally, a few languages, such as English and Afrikaans, have nearly completely lost grammatical gender ; while Bengali, Persian, Armenian, Assamese, Oriya, Khowar, and Kalasha have completely lost it.

There are many languages spoken in South Asia like Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, Pashto, Marathi, Assamese, Bengali, Maithili, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Rajasthani and many more, creating a variety of accents of English.

* Each consonant has an inherent vowel which is usually short ' a ' ( in Bengali, and Assamese, it is short ' ô ' due to sound shifts ).

The largest in terms of native speakers being Hindustani ( Hindi-Urdu ) ( about 240 million ), Bengali ( about 230 million ), Punjabi ( about 90 million ), Marathi ( about 70 million ), Gujarati ( about 45 million ), Oriya ( about 30 million ), Sindhi ( about 20 million ), Saraiki ( about 18 million ), Nepali ( about 14 million ), Chittagonian ( about 14 million ), Sinhala ( about 16 million ), and Assamese ( about 13 million ) with a total number of native speakers of more than 900 million.

The Indo-Aryan prakrits also gave rise to languages like Gujarati, Assamese, Bengali, Oriya, Nepali, Marathi, and Punjabi, which are not considered to be Hindi despite being part of the same dialect continuum.

The official language of the Union of India is Hindi, with 21 other regional languages holding co-official status, including: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

* Bengali language, Assamese: শ ্ র ী

A Rakshasa ( Sanskrit: र ा क ् षस ः, Kannada: ರ ಾ ಕ ್ ಷಸ, Malay / Indonesian: raksasa, Bengali: rakkhosh, Assamese: raikhox, Tibetan: ས ྲི ན ་ པ ོ་ srinpo, Chinese: 羅剎 luó ​ chà or lo-cha, Japanese: 羅刹 rasetsu, Vietnamese: la sát ) or alternatively rakshas, is a race of mythological humanoid beings or unrighteous spirit in Hindu and Buddhist religion.

Despite the fact that it possesses a very large and complex pronominal system, Standard Maithili, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya, and Nepali make no difference in gender in any of its pronouns.

Some of these include Arabic, Assamese, Azeri, Bengali, Farsi, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer ( Cambodian ), Lao, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese, amongst others.

It is also one of the main ingredients of East Indian ( oriya and Bengali or Assamese ) pitha.

Along with other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Assamese evolved circa 1000 – 1200 AD from the Magadhi Prakrit, which developed from a dialect or group of dialects that were close to, but different from, Vedic and Classical Sanskrit. Its sister languages include Bengali, Chittagonian, Sylheti ( Cilôţi ), Oriya, the Bihari languages. It is written with the Assamese script.

Assamese and its closely related sister languages ( Maithili, Bengali and Oriya ) developed from Magadhi Prakrit.

* Panjika, Hindu astrological almanac in Assamese, Bengali and Oriya

However, in the Bengali and Assamese languages, spoken in Assam, Tripura, and West Bengal, the rupee is known as a Taka, and is written as such on Indian banknotes.

* Bengali alphabet, the script used to write Bengali, and a variant of Assamese

Most languages are written using a script specific to them, such as Assamese with Assamese / Axomiya, Bengali with Bengali, Punjabi with Gurmukhi, Oriya with Utkal Lipi, Gujarati with Gujarati, etc.

In Tamil and Malayalam, monitor lizards are known as udumbu, ghorpad घ ो रपड in Marathi, uda in Kannada, in Sinhalese as kabaragoya, in Telugu as Udumu, in Punjabi and Magahi ( and other Bihari languages ) as goh, in Assamese as " Gui Xaap " and in Bengali as goshaap or guishaap.

Although the handwritten Oriya script of the time closely resembled the Bengali and Assamese scripts, the one adopted for the printed typesets was significantly different, leaning more towards the Tamil script and Telugu script.

He also sang in other Indian languages including Konkani, Bhojpuri, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Sindhi, Kannada, Gujarati, Telugu, Maghi, Maithili and Assamese.

However, language scholars have come to a definite conclusion that Magadhi, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Assamese and Oriya originated from Magadhi-Prakrit / Ardh-Magadhi during the 8th to 11th centuries AD.

Bengali, Hindi, English, Nepali, Assamese, Marwari, Bihari, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Gujarati and Tibeten languages are spoken in Siliguri.

: Magadhi was used in eastern India, later evolving into the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, including Bengali, Assamese, Oriya, and the Bihari languages ( Bhojpuri, modern Magahi, Maithili, etc.

Duar means door in Assamese, Nepali, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Magahi and Bengali languages, and the region forms the gateway to Bhutan from India.

The Naga Bhut Jolokia ( Assamese: ভ ূ ত জলক ী য ়া bhut jôlôkia ; মর ি চ naga morich ; Nepali: ज ो ग ी ख ु रस ा न ी; Manipuri: উম ো র ো ক umorok ; Burmese: ရ ွှေ လန ် ပ ို Shwe Lan Po ), is a chili pepper previously recognized by Guinness World Records as the hottest pepper in the world.

In India, it is known as lauki ( ल ौ क ी / લ ૌ ક ી), dudhi ( द ू द ी / દ ૂ દ ી) or ghiya ( घ ी य ा / ઘ ી ય ા) in Hindi / Urdu / Gujarati ; Laau ( ଲ ା ଉ ) in Oriya ; aal ( आल ) in Marwari ; churakka ( ച ു രക ് ക ) in Malayalam ; jatilao in Assamese ; lau ( ল া উ ) in Bengali ; sorakaaya ( స ొ ర క ా య ) or anapakaya in Telugu ; dudhi-Bhopala ( द ु ध ी भ ो पळ ा) in Marathi ; sorekayi in Kannada ; sajmain in Maithili and suraikkaai ( ச ு ர ை க ் க ா ய ் colloquilly sorakkay ) in Tamil.

Kamarupi Prakrit ( Sanskrit: क ा मर ु प ी प ् र ा क ृ त ) ( Assamese: ক া মৰ ূ প ী প ্ ৰ া ক ৃ ত ) ( Bengali: ক া মর ূ প ী প ্ র া ক ৃ ত ) was the Prakrit language and Apabhramsa used in Kamarupa kingdom.

Gilli Danda known by various other names: it is called Tipcat in English, Dandi-Biyo ( डण ् ड ी ब ि य ो) in Nepali, alak-doulak ( الک دولک ) in Persian, dānggűli in Bengali & Assamese, chinni-dandu in Kannada, kuttiyum kolum in Malayalam, viti-dandu व ि ट ् ट ी द ां ड ू in Marathi, kitti-pul ( க ி ட ் ட ி- ப ு ல ்) in Tamil, Gooti-Billa or Karra-Billa or Billam-Godu in Telugu, Gulli-Danda in Punjabi, Geeti Danna () in ( Saraiki, Iti-Dakar ( اٽي ڏڪر ) in Sindhi, Lappa-Duggi ( لپا ڈگی ) in Pashto and Kon ko in khmer, the Cambodian language.

The combination of areca nut with betel leaf is called tamul ( ত া ম ূ ল / " ত া ম ো ল ") in Assamese, kavala in Kannada, tambulam in Sanskrit, bajjai in Tulu, and paan in Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, and Urdu.

The betel leaf is known as Paan in Assamese / Hindi / Oriya / Bengali, and Tambula and Nagavalli in Sanskrit.

The Indo-Aryan prakrits also gave rise to languages like Gujarati, Assamese, Maithili, Bengali, Oriya, Nepali, Marathi, and Punjabi, which are not considered to be Hindi despite being part of the same dialect continuum.

Anirban Roy's book is also getting translated into Hindi and Assamese.

The library has separate Indian language divisions for Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

Catechu is called katha in Hindi, kaath in ( marathi ), khoyer in Assamese and Bengali, and kachu in Malay, hence the Latinized Acacia catechu chosen as the Linnaean taxonomy name of the type-species Acacia plant which provides the extract.

The local names include titeeri ( Hindi ), tateehar ( Sindhi ), titodi ( Gujarati ), hatatut ( Kashmiri ), balighora ( Assamese ), yennappa chitawa ( Telugu ), aal-kaati ( Tamil, meaning " human indicator ").

Eight Jnanpith awards each have been awarded in Hindi and Kannada, followed by five in Bengali, four in Malayalam, and three in Gujarati, Marathi and Urdu and 2 each in Assamese, Tamil and Telegu

Local names include Baluchistan: Aspi chidok ; Sindhi: Dalel ; Hindi: Kilkila, Kourilla ; Himachal Pradesh: Neela machhrala ; Punjabi: Wadda machhera ; Bengali: Sandabuk machhranga ; Assamese: Masroka ; Cachar: Dao natu gophu ; Gujarati: Kalkaliyo, Safedchati kalkaliyo ; Marathi: Khandya ; Tamil: Vichuli ; Telugu: Lakmuka, Buchegadu ; Malayalam: Ponman ; Kannada: Rajamatsi ; Sinhalese: Pilihuduwa.

Prabodh Chandra Dey ( born 1 May 1919 ), better known by his nickname Manna Dey (), is a legendary playback singer in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Assamese films.

Other local names include Thampal in Pakistan, Gohalo / Kolaho in Baluchistan, Kalkalachi in Sindhi, Kotwal (= policeman ) in Hindi ; Finga in Bengali ; Phenchu in Assamese: Phenchu ; Cheiroi in Manipuri ; Kosita / Kalo koshi in Gujarati ; Ghosia in Marathi ; Kajalapati in Oriya ; Kari kuruvi (= charcoal bird ), Erettai valan (= two tail ) in Tamil ; Passala poli gadu in Telugu ; Kaaka tampuratti (= queen of crows ) in Malayalam ; Kari bhujanga in Kannada and Kauda in Sinhalese.

The book has been translated into a number of languages, including Chinese, French, Italian, German, Korean, Malay, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Russian, Uyghur, Sinhala, and Lao, and many Indian languages including Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Assamese, Kannada, and Malayalam.

It was once mistakenly thought to be a dialect of Hindi, but has been more recently shown to be descendant of and very similar to the Eastern Group of Indic languages, along with Bengali, Assamese, and Oriya.

The curry tree ( Assamese: নৰস িং হ, Bengali: ক া র ী প া ত া, Sinhala: කරප ිං ච ා, Tamil: கர ு வ ே ப ் ப ி ல ை, Kannada: ಕರ ಿ ಬ ೇ ವ ು, Telugu: కర ి వ ే ప ా క ు, Malayalam: കറ ി വ േ പ ് പ ി ലOriya: ଭ ୃ ସଙ ୍ ଗ ପତ ୍ ର, Hindi: कर ी पत ् त ा, कड ़ी पत ् त ा, म ी ठ ा न ी म, म ी ठ ा न ी म पत ् त ा, Marathi: कढ ी ल िं ब, Gujarati: મ ી ઠ ો લ ી મડ ો, કર ી પત ્ ત ા, કડ ી પત ્ ત ા), Myanmar: ပ ျ ဉ ်း တ ော် သ ိ မ ်, ( Murraya koenigii ; syn.

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Her most publicized works, How I Taught My Grandmother to Read & Other Stories has been translated into 15 languages including English, Hindi and Assamese.

Chaitra ( Marathi च ै त ् र caitr, Hindi: च ै त ् र cait, Bengali: চ ৈ ত ্ র ( see Choitro ), Assamese: চ ' ত Kannada " ಚ ೈ ತ ್ ರ "," Chaitra ", Telugu: చ ై త ్ రమ ు chaitramu Tamil: ச ி த ் த ி ர ை chithirai, Malayalam: ച ൈ ത ് ര ം chaitram ) is a month of the Hindu calendar.

Nine individuals the 2009 award which is being shared by two Hindi writers writing in Hindi have been honoured with the award, eight in Kannada, five in Bengali and Malayalam, four in Urdu and three in Gujarati, Oriya and Marathi and 2 each in Assamese, Tamil and Telugu.