Countries
Meghalaya
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Myanmar
Second Language
-
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
-
Mon
Regulated By
-
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1433
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Tangut
Writing Direction
-
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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Hello
Kumno
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Khublei
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
thia sukh
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
babha janmiet
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
khublei
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Sngewbha
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Map
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
khublei
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
ieit ieit
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
map a nga
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Arakanese
Where They Speak
-
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Nonglung
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
-
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Intha
Where They Speak
-
Burma
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
55
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million43.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.84 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Ka Ktien
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
khasi
birman
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Bamar people
Origin
1200 AD
1113 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Khasi
Modern Burmese
Language Position
4043
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
mya
ISO 639 2/B
kha
bur
ISO 639 3
kha
mya
ISO 639 6
kha
mya
Glottocode
khas1269
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating