Countries
Meghalaya
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, India
China, Guangdong
Second Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
-
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2328
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1420
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kumno
您好
Thank You
Khublei
谢谢
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
你好吗？
Good Night
thia sukh
晚安
Good Evening
babha janmiet
晚上好
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
下午好
Good Morning
khublei
早上好
Please
Sngewbha
请
Sorry
Map
遗憾
Bye
khublei
再见
I Love You
ieit ieit
我爱你
Excuse Me
map a nga
原谅我
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
-
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Xiguan
Where They Speak
-
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
-
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.84 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Ka Ktien
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
khasi
cantonais
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Han Chinese
Origin
1200 AD
17th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khasi
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
401
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
yue
ISO 639 2/B
kha
yue
ISO 639 3
kha
No data available
ISO 639 6
kha
yue
Glottocode
khas1269
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-