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The north-eastern part of India, Assam is the abode of various ethnic tribes with diverse colourful cultures. Since the pre-historic times various ethnic tribes have came to Assam to become permanent dwellers. People came in different times but they live here very peacefully and these ethnic tribes have so integrated themselves into the Assamese society and culture that it is often difficult to tell one from another. The Mataks are a specimen case who live in Assam long before the Tai Ahoms. After their assimilation into the greater Assamese nation and its culture, have almost lost their ethnic tribal identity, their language etc.. First, they have become mingled with the Tai Ahoms from the thirteenth century and then, in the Seventeenth century they embraced the Mayamoria religion preached by Sri Aniruddhadeva. Consequently, the post seventeenth century annals and history books contain confusing and misleading information in the context of the historical identify of the Matak ethnic tribe - which may be summed up as �the Mataks are none other than the Mayamoras�, and so on. Befor assimilation Mataks had their own language identity. But now all the Matak people talk in Assamese as their mother tong. Trough this paper want to discuss the speaking language of Matak tribe and they are an ethnic tribe of Tai Mongolian origin, and not �a religious community� as held usually.