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Khasi
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Countries

Countries

Meghalaya

Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, India

Second Language

-

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

-

Regulated By

-

Interesting Facts

  • Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
  • There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.

Similar To

Garo and Jaintia Languages

Derived From

-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

23
Rank: 5 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

14
Rank: 4 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Bengali, Latin

Writing Direction

-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kumno

Thank You

Khublei

How Are You?

Kumno phi long?

Good Night

thia sukh

Good Evening

babha janmiet

Good Afternoon

babha noph-phai-sngi

Good Morning

khublei

Please

Sngewbha

Sorry

Map

Bye

khublei

I Love You

ieit ieit

Excuse Me

map a nga

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bhoi

Where They Speak

-

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00
Rank: 57 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Nonglung

Where They Speak

-

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00
Rank: 62 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Cherrapunji

Where They Speak

-

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00
Rank: 51 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

5
Rank: 5 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.84 million
Rank: 87 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %
Rank: 62 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.84 million
Rank: 82 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million
Rank: 59 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

Ka Ktien

Alternative Names

Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia

French Name

khasi

German Name

Khasi-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈkʰɑsi]

Ethnicity

Khasi people

History

Origin

1200 AD

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup

-

Branch

-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No Early Forms

Standard Forms

Khasi

Language Position

40
Rank: 37 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Khasi Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kha

ISO 639 2/B

kha

ISO 639 3

kha

ISO 639 6

kha

Glottocode

khas1269

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-

Language Morphological Typology

-

Know Alphabets in Khasi

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Khasi Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Khasi Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Khasi. Khasi phonology gives Khasi vowels and Khasi consonants. There are vowels and consonants in Khasi language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Khasi is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Khasi language is given in detail in this section.

All Khasi countries

Want to explore all Khasi countries? About Khasi language serves you with all Khasi Speaking Countries. Countries that use Khasi as official language are called as Khasi countries.

  • Countries that use Khasi as their National Language are: .

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Khasi as second language are: .

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Learn Khasi greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Khasi Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Khasi language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Khasi language.Learn Khasi greetings that can be used in formal situations:

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  • Good Morning:
  • Good Evening:
  • Good Afternoon:

All Khasi Language Codes

Get to know all Khasi language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Khasi Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.