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Estonian vs Khasi


Khasi vs Estonian


Countries

Countries
Estonia, European Union  
Meghalaya  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Estonia, Gambia  
Bangladesh, India  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
-  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden  
-  

Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language  
-  

Interesting Facts
  • Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
  • Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish 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
Finnish  
Garo and Jaintia Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
27  
9
23  
5

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
6  
3

How Many Consonants
18  
8
14  
4

Scripts
Latin  
Bengali, Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Tere  
Kumno  

Thank You
aitäh  
Khublei  

How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb  
Kumno phi long?  

Good Night
Head ööd  
thia sukh  

Good Evening
Tere õhtust  
babha janmiet  

Good Afternoon
Tere päevast  
babha noph-phai-sngi  

Good Morning
Tere hommikust  
khublei  

Please
Palun  
Sngewbha  

Sorry
Vabandust  
Map  

Bye
Head aega  
khublei  

I Love You
ma armastan sind  
ieit ieit  

Excuse Me
Vabandage  
map a nga  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Keskmurre  
Bhoi  

Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia  
-  

How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00  
99+
1,500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Tartu  
Nonglung  

Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia  
-  

How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Idamurre  
Cherrapunji  

Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.  
-  

How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00  
99+
1,500,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
8  
8
5  
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.10 million  
99+
0.84 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.03 %  
99+
0.01 %  
99+

Native Speakers
0.95 million  
99+
0.84 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
1.10 million  
99+
1.50 million  
99+

Native Name
eesti keel  
Ka Ktien  

Alternative Names
Eesti keel  
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia  

French Name
estonien  
khasi  

German Name
Estnisch  
Khasi-Sprache  

Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]  
[ˈkʰɑsi]  

Ethnicity
Estonians  
Khasi people  

History

Origin
13th century  
1200 AD  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Austroasiatic Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
-  

Branch
Finnic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No Early Forms  

Standard Forms
Estonian  
Khasi  

Language Position
22  
20
40  
37

Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language  
Khasi Sign Language  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
et  
No data available  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
est  
kha  

ISO 639 2/B
est  
kha  

ISO 639 3
est  
kha  

ISO 639 6
est  
kha  

Glottocode
esto1258  
khas1269  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
-  

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Estonian and Khasi Language History

Comparison of Estonian vs Khasi language history gives us differences between origin of Estonian and Khasi language. History of Estonian language states that this language originated in 13th century whereas history of Khasi language states that this language originated in 1200 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Estonian and Khasi Language History.

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Estonian and Khasi Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Estonian and Khasi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Khasi language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Khasi word for "Thank You" is Khublei. Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Khasi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Estonian vs Khasi Difficulty

The Estonian vs Khasi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Khasi Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Estonian and Khasi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Khasi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Khasi time required is 44 weeks.

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