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Krio: how the conversation dae go?

English: how's the conversation going?

hi! anyone wanna learn Dutch?

hi! anyone wanna learn Dutch?

hey.. would love to!

Oggi ho letto un libro interessante: today i read an interesting book

Italian 🙂

hey.. would love to!

nice! what would you like to learn?

nice! what would you like to learn?

start with greetings 😊

I'll just add a poetic phrase from Assamese romantic literature, it was the only thing I could think of,

Assamese: "তুমি মোৰ নিশাৰ তৰা, অন্ধকাৰত পোহৰ দিয়া"

English: "You are my star of the night, bringing light into the dark."

Latinised (based on how it sounds like when spoken, not accurate because some sounds in our vocabulary isn't found in English): "tumi mur nixar tora, ondhokarot puhor diya"

It comes from a poem by Assamese poet Hemchandra Goswami called "প্ৰেয়সী" (pronounced: Preyosi; translates to: Beloved)

There's also a word "শেৱালী" (Xewali) which is the Night-flowering Jasmine in English, this specific flower is pretty common in Assamese poetry because It blooms only at night and drops to the ground by dawn.

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start with greetings 😊

well, you can say: hallo (hello), hai (hey), goedemorgen (goodmorning), goedemiddag (good evening), goede avond (good afternoon), dag (just a greet that i dont know how to translate to English, but is like bye but then as a greet.

do you want to learn more or is this ok?
do you want to learn more or is this ok?

yeah.. absolutely!

I'll just add a poetic phrase from Assamese romantic literature, it was the only thing I could think of,

Assamese: "তুমি মোৰ নিশাৰ তৰা, অন্ধকাৰত পোহৰ দিয়া"

English: "You are my star of the night, bringing light into the dark."

Latinised (based on how it sounds like when spoken, not accurate because some sounds in our vocabulary isn't found in English): "tumi mur nixar tora, ondhokarot puhor diya"

It comes from a poem by Assamese poet Hemchandra Goswami called "প্ৰেয়সী" (pronounced: Preyosi; translates to: Beloved)

There's also a word "শেৱালী" (Xewali) which is the Night-flowering Jasmine in English, this specific flower is pretty common in Assamese poetry because It blooms only at night and drops to the ground by dawn.

Assamese is written with the same script as Bengali... Here is the Bengali version of your Assamese line - তুমি আমার রাতের তারা, অন্ধকারে জ্বলজ্বল করো।

Assamese is written with the same script as Bengali... Here is the Bengali version of your Assamese line - তুমি আমার রাতের তারা, অন্ধকারে জ্বলজ্বল করো।

Yeah I agree, Assamese is Written in the same script as Bengali but there are differences in words and letters, for example: Bengali writes their "ra" sounding letter like "র", while we use ৰ (with a distinct dot inside the loop/curve). Another difference is that: we have the letter ৱ (a separate character with a middle bar/loop used for 'w' or 'v' sounds). While, bengali just uses the letter ব (the letter 'ba' is typically used to represent both 'b' and 'w/v' sounds depending on the word, without a separate dedicated 'ৱ' letter in standard modern use).

Another difference is that While the rest of the vowels and consonants look and function the same way, Assamese retained these two specific letter forms that were phased out or merged in standard Bengali printing presses during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Even though the written characters are 99% the same, the actual spoken phonetics, intonation, and stress patterns of the Assamese and Bengali languages differ significantly.

We also have different words such as:

We call fire "জুই" (zui) while the Bengali people call it "আগুন" (aagun).

There are alot of differences in pronounciation as well, it will take a while for me to list them all

Yeah I agree, Assamese is Written in the same script as Bengali but there are differences in words and letters, for example: Bengali writes their "ra" sounding letter like "র", while we use ৰ (with a distinct dot inside the loop/curve). Another difference is that: we have the letter ৱ (a separate character with a middle bar/loop used for 'w' or 'v' sounds). While, bengali just uses the letter ব (the letter 'ba' is typically used to represent both 'b' and 'w/v' sounds depending on the word, without a separate dedicated 'ৱ' letter in standard modern use).

Another difference is that While the rest of the vowels and consonants look and function the same way, Assamese retained these two specific letter forms that were phased out or merged in standard Bengali printing presses during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Even though the written characters are 99% the same, the actual spoken phonetics, intonation, and stress patterns of the Assamese and Bengali languages differ significantly.

We also have different words such as:

We call fire "জুই" (zui) while the Bengali people call it "আগুন" (aagun).

There are alot of differences in pronounciation as well, it will take a while for me to list them all


Thanks for the details, it's really informative!

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yeah.. absolutely!

what would you like to learn? introduce yourself? order something in a cafe? tell me!

what would you like to learn? introduce yourself? order something in a cafe? tell me!

more of conversational - like if you say, hello, how are you, or what keeps you busy & the usual response

dus, is er nog iets gebeurt vandaag?-> so, did anything happen today? like that?

more of conversational - like if you say, hello, how are you, or what keeps you busy & the usual response

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