Assamese Language: Facts for Translators

Assamese (as, asm) is a world language. Wikidata records about 15.3M speakers. It is written in Assamese alphabet.

15.3M

Speakers

$0.12–0.28

Indicative rate / word

Translation guides

Rates for Assamese translation

Assamese falls in our lesser-diffused languages band: roughly $0.12–$0.28 per word for general commercial work. These are indicative ranges, not quotes — specialised, certified and rush work costs more, and literary translation is usually priced per 1,000 words.

For context, the median salaried translator or interpreter in the US earned $60,170 in May 2025 (BLS). See salaries by state →

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From Wikipedia

Assamese, also known by its endonyms Asamiya or Oxomiya, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. It has long served as a lingua franca in parts of Northeast India. It has over 15 million native speakers and 8.3 million second language speakers according to Ethnologue, although this claim is widely disputed by academics, based on census figures. Assamese was designated as a classical Indian language by the Government of India on 3 October 2024 on account of its antiquity and literary traditions.