Countries
Meghalaya
Myanmar
National Language
Bangladesh, India
Myanmar
Second Language
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Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Regulated By
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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
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Pali Language
Alphabets in
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Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Tangut
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Where They Speak
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Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
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Myanmar
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Intha
Native Name
Ka Ktien
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Bamar people
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
No Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Khasi
Modern Burmese
Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
my
Glottocode
khas1269
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating
All Khasi and Burmese 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 Burmese dialects. Various dialects of Khasi and Burmese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Khasi are spoken in different Khasi Speaking Countries whereas Burmese Dialects are spoken in different Burmese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Khasi vs Burmese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Khasi dialects include: Bhoi, Nonglung. Burmese dialects include: Arakanese , Tavoyan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Khasi and Burmese Speaking population
Khasi and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khasi and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Khasi and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 %. 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 Burmese on Khasi vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Khasi and Burmese Language Codes
Khasi and Burmese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Khasi and Burmese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.