Dimasa is a Brahmaputran language spoken in the states of Assam, Nagaland and Manipur in the northeast of India by about 110,000 people. The majority of Dimasa speakers can be found in the Dima Hasao district in the south of Assam, particularly in the town of Haflong in the south of Dima Hasao. There are also Dimasa speakers in the districts of Karbi Anglong, Nagaon and Cachar in Assam, in the Dimapur District in the southwest of Nagaland, and in the Jiribam Region in the soutwest of Manipur.
Dimasa means "Children of the big river", and Dimasa speakers call their language Grao-Dima ("Language of the big river"). It is closely related to Boro, Kokborok and Garo. Dimasa is written with the Latin alphabet, and there appear to be several ways to write it.
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Some details provided by Michael Peter Füstumum.
Sainshikali Asampa train ha ga hi Guwahati ha thangba ne. Mashi station ha train mathaoba ha, Asampa saoshi hadisa khe Hindi grao jang sengkha: Ithu kya Station hai? Hadisa: Malum nahi. Asampa baokha station ni bumu Malum nahi station.
It is said that one day Asampa was travelling to Guwahati by train. When the train stopped at one of the stations, Asampa asked one Bengali person in Hindi: "What station is this?" Bengali person: "Malum nahi" (I don't know). Asampa thought that the station's name was Malum nahi.
Source: https://www.academia.edu/55350183/Dimasa_language_structure_and_texts
Information about Dimasa | Numbers
Information about Dimasa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimasa_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimasa
https://www.academia.edu/12999168/A_Short_Dimasa_Grammar
https://ncert.nic.in/pdf/primer/Dimasa_Primer.pdf
https://www.academia.edu/55350183/Dimasa_language_structure_and_texts
Learn Dimasa
https://www.dimasathairili.com/p/learn-dimasa-language.html
Atong, Chang, Dimasa, Garo, Kokborok, Phom, Tangsa, Wancho
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 26.09.25. Last modified: 26.09.25
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