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Khasi
Khasi

Assamese
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Countries

Countries

Meghalaya
India

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, India
Bangladesh, India

Second Language

-
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

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Bangladesh, Bhutan

Regulated By

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Asam Sahitya Sabha

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.
  • Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
  • Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.

Similar To

Garo and Jaintia Languages
Bengali and Oriya

Derived From

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Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2352
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

611
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1441
9 60
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Scripts

Bengali, Latin
Bengali

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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kumno
nomoskaar

Thank You

Khublei
ḍhonyobaaḍ

How Are You?

Kumno phi long?
aapuni kene aase?

Good Night

thia sukh
subhoraattri

Good Evening

babha janmiet
subha gadhuli

Good Afternoon

babha noph-phai-sngi
subha abeli

Good Morning

khublei
suprobhaat

Please

Sngewbha
anugroha kori

Sorry

Map
moi ḍukkhita

Bye

khublei
biḍai

I Love You

ieit ieit
moi tomaak bhaalpaao

Excuse Me

map a nga
kyoma koribo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bhoi
Kamrupi

Where They Speak

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Western Assam

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.006,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Nonglung
Goalpariya

Where They Speak

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Western Assam

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.0016,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Cherrapunji
Bhakatiya

Where They Speak

-
Assam

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0016,000,000.00
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 million15.30 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.84 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Ka Ktien
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)

Alternative Names

Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya

French Name

khasi
assamais

German Name

Khasi-Sprache
Assamesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈkʰɑsi]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]

Ethnicity

Khasi people
Assamese people

History

Origin

1200 AD
7th century A.D

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

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Indo-Iranian

Branch

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Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No Early Forms
Kamarupa

Standard Forms

Khasi
Assamese

Language Position

4065
1 120
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Signed Forms

Khasi Sign Language
Signed Assamese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
as

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kha
asm

ISO 639 2/B

kha
asm

ISO 639 3

kha
asm

ISO 639 6

kha
asm

Glottocode

khas1269
assa1263

Linguasphere

No data available
59-AAF-w

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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-

Khasi and Assamese Alphabets

Khasi and Assamese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khasi and Assamese. In Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters while in Assamese Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Khasi and Assamese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khasi and Assamese 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 Assamese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khasi and Assamese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Khasi and Assamese Speaking population

Khasi and Assamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khasi and Assamese languages can be compared. The total count of Khasi and Assamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 %. 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 Assamese on Khasi vs Assamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khasi and Assamese Language Codes

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