Countries
Meghalaya
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, India
South Africa
Second Language
-
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
-
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
-
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2332
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1417
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kumno
hallo
Thank You
Khublei
Dankie
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
thia sukh
goeie nag
Good Evening
babha janmiet
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
Goeie middag
Good Morning
khublei
goeie more
Please
Sngewbha
asseblief
Sorry
Map
jammer
Bye
khublei
Totsiens
I Love You
ieit ieit
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
map a nga
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
-
Namibia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.84 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Ka Ktien
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Cape Dutch
French Name
khasi
afrikaans
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Afrikaners
Origin
1200 AD
17th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Khasi
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
4023
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
afr
ISO 639 2/B
kha
afr
ISO 639 3
kha
afr
ISO 639 6
kha
afrs
Glottocode
khas1269
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic