Countries
Meghalaya
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
India
Second Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2344
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
611
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1433
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
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Khublei
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
thia sukh
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
babha janmiet
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
khublei
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
Sngewbha
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
Map
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
khublei
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
ieit ieit
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
map a nga
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Khariboli
Where They Speak
-
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Marwari
Where They Speak
-
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Bundeli
Where They Speak
-
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
521
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.84 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Ka Ktien
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
khasi
hindi
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Hindi
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Hindustani people
Origin
1200 AD
7th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khasi
Standard Hindi
Language Position
405
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
hin
ISO 639 2/B
kha
hin
ISO 639 3
kha
hin
ISO 639 6
kha
hins
Glottocode
khas1269
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic