Countries
Meghalaya
India, No official status
Total No. Of Countries
10
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, India
India
Second Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
-
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Maithili and Magahi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2343
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
611
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1434
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kumno
प्रणाम (prannam)
Thank You
Khublei
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Good Night
thia sukh
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Evening
babha janmiet
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Morning
khublei
राम राम (raam raam)
Please
Sngewbha
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
Sorry
Map
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Bye
khublei
प्रणाम (prannam)
I Love You
ieit ieit
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Excuse Me
map a nga
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Caribbean Hindustani
Where They Speak
-
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0016,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Fiji Hindi
Where They Speak
-
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00380,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Tharu Bhojpuri
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
513
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million40.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.43 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.84 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Ka Ktien
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
French Name
khasi
bhojpuri
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Bhojpuri
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Bhojpuri speakers
Origin
1200 AD
19th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khasi
Bhojpuri
Language Position
4037
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
bho
ISO 639 2/B
kha
bho
ISO 639 3
kha
bho
ISO 639 6
kha
bho
Glottocode
khas1269
bhoj1246
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-