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Countries

Countries
Meghalaya

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
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Alphabets
23 5

Phonology

How Many Vowels
6 3

How Many Consonants
14 4

Scripts
Bengali, Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 57

Dialect 2
Nonglung

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00 62

Dialect 3
Cherrapunji

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00 51

Total No. Of Dialects
5 5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.84 million 87

Speaking Population
0.01 % 62

Native Speakers
0.84 million 82

Second Language Speakers
1.50 million 59

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 37

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
-

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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 6 vowels and 14 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.

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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: Bangladesh, India.

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:

  • Hello: Kumno
  • Thank you: Khublei
  • Good Morning: khublei
  • Good Evening: babha janmiet
  • Good Afternoon: babha noph-phai-sngi

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.

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