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Assamese or Axomiya, like other Indian languages, is very evocative.

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Assamese or Axomiya, like other Indian languages, is very evocative. The Assamese have poetic names for children (Poorna Chandra, full moon), and even the time of day (godhuli, that swooningly poetic word for evening, or the time of cow-dust, when the cows come home). Lakshminath Bezbaroa, one of their finest literary stalwarts, has the honorific Sahityarathi or Charioteer of Literature. Just wonderful.

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