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Khasi
Khasi

Dzongkha
Dzongkha



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Countries

Countries

Meghalaya
Bhutan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, India
Bhutan

Second Language

-
India

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

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India

Regulated By

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Dzongkha Development 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.
  • Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.

Similar To

Garo and Jaintia Languages
Sikkimese Language

Derived From

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Tibetan Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2395
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1430
9 60
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Scripts

Bengali, Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks38 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kumno
Kuzoozangpo La

Thank You

Khublei
Kaadinchhey La

How Are You?

Kumno phi long?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?

Good Night

thia sukh
lek shom ay zim

Good Evening

babha janmiet
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་

Good Afternoon

babha noph-phai-sngi
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ

Good Morning

khublei
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ

Please

Sngewbha
བསྐྱར་མ་

Sorry

Map
Tsip maza

Bye

khublei
Log Jay Gay

I Love You

ieit ieit
Nga cheu lu ga

Excuse Me

map a nga
Tsip maza

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bhoi
Laya

Where They Speak

-
Bhutan

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.001,100.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Nonglung
Lunana

Where They Speak

-
Bhutan

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00700.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Cherrapunji
Adap

Where They Speak

-
Bhutan

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00130,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

54
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.84 million0.64 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.84 million0.17 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million0.47 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Ka Ktien
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)

Alternative Names

Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar

French Name

khasi
dzongkha

German Name

Khasi-Sprache
Dzongkha

Pronunciation

[ˈkʰɑsi]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]

Ethnicity

Khasi people
Ngalop people

History

Origin

1200 AD
17th Century

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

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Tibeto-Burman

Language Forms

Early Forms

No Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Khasi
Dzongkha

Language Position

4031
1 120
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Signed Forms

Khasi Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
dz

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kha
dzo

ISO 639 2/B

kha
dzo

ISO 639 3

kha
dzo

ISO 639 6

kha
dzo

Glottocode

khas1269
nucl1307

Linguasphere

No data available
No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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-

Language Morphological Typology

-
-

Khasi and Dzongkha Alphabets

Khasi and Dzongkha Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khasi and Dzongkha. In Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters while in Dzongkha Alphabets there are 95 letters. To learn Khasi and Dzongkha languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khasi and Dzongkha 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 Dzongkha greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khasi and Dzongkha are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Khasi and Dzongkha Speaking population

Khasi and Dzongkha speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khasi and Dzongkha languages can be compared. The total count of Khasi and Dzongkha Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is 0.07 %. 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 Dzongkha on Khasi vs Dzongkha where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khasi and Dzongkha Language Codes

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