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Countries

Countries

Meghalaya
South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, India
South Africa

Second Language

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Namibia, South Africa

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa

Minority Language

-
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Regulated By

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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

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Dutch Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2332
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

615
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1417
9 60
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Scripts

Bengali, Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

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

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bhoi
Kaapse Afrikaans

Where They Speak

-
-

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.007,700,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Nonglung
Oranjeriverafrikaans

Where They Speak

-
-

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.007,700,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Cherrapunji
Baster Afrikaans

Where They Speak

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Namibia

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.007.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

53
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.84 million19.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.03 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.84 million7.10 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million10.30 million
0.01 400
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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

History

Origin

1200 AD
17th Century

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

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Germanic

Branch

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Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch

Standard Forms

Khasi
Standard Afrikaans

Language Position

4023
1 120
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Signed Forms

Khasi Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

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

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Analytic

Khasi and Afrikaans Alphabets

Khasi and Afrikaans Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khasi and Afrikaans. In Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters while in Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Khasi and Afrikaans languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khasi and Afrikaans languages. The Khasi phonology consist Khasi vowels and Khasi consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Khasi greetings vs Afrikaans greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khasi and Afrikaans are Most Spoken Languages.

All Khasi and Afrikaans 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 Khasi and Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of Khasi and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Khasi are spoken in different Khasi Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Khasi vs Afrikaans Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Khasi dialects include: Bhoi, Nonglung. Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans , Oranjeriverafrikaans. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Khasi and Afrikaans Speaking population

Khasi and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khasi and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Khasi and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 %. 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 Khasi and Afrikaans on Khasi vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khasi and Afrikaans Language Codes

Khasi and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Khasi and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.