Countries
Myanmar
Meghalaya
National Language
Myanmar
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
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Interesting Facts
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
- 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
Thai Language
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tangut
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Kumno
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Khublei
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
thia sukh
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
khublei
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sngewbha
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Map
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
khublei
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
map a nga
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Myanmar
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Dialect 3
Intha
Cherrapunji
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
German Name
Birmanisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Khasi people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Khasi
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
No data available
Glottocode
sout3159
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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All Burmese and Khasi Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Burmese and Khasi dialects. Various dialects of Burmese and Khasi language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Burmese are spoken in different Burmese Speaking Countries whereas Khasi Dialects are spoken in different Khasi speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Burmese vs Khasi Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Burmese dialects include: Arakanese, Tavoyan. Khasi dialects include: Bhoi , Nonglung. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Burmese and Khasi Speaking population
Burmese and Khasi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Burmese and Khasi languages can be compared. The total count of Burmese and Khasi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Burmese and Khasi on Burmese vs Khasi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Burmese and Khasi Language Codes
Burmese and Khasi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Burmese and Khasi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.