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Khasi
Khasi

Igbo
Igbo



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Countries

Countries

Meghalaya
Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, India
Nigeria

Second Language

-
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa

Minority Language

-
Equatorial Guinea

Regulated By

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Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture

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 Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
  • Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.

Similar To

Garo and Jaintia Languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2336
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

68
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1428
9 60
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Scripts

Bengali, Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks52 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kumno
kedụ

Thank You

Khublei
dalụ

How Are You?

Kumno phi long?
kedụ ka ịmere

Good Night

thia sukh
ka chi fo

Good Evening

babha janmiet
mgbede ọma

Good Afternoon

babha noph-phai-sngi
ehihie ọma

Good Morning

khublei
ụtụtụ ọma

Please

Sngewbha
Biko

Sorry

Map
Ndo

Bye

khublei
Kachifo

I Love You

ieit ieit
a hụrụ m gị n'anya

Excuse Me

map a nga
ngọpụ

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bhoi
Enuani

Where They Speak

-
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Nonglung
Ngwa

Where They Speak

-
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.001,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Cherrapunji
Not present

Where They Speak

-
-

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0024.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

520
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.84 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.09 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.84 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million24.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Ka Ktien
igbo

Alternative Names

Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Ibo

French Name

khasi
igbo

German Name

Khasi-Sprache
Ibo-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈkʰɑsi]
[iɡ͡boː]

Ethnicity

Khasi people
Igbo people

History

Origin

1200 AD
30th Century BC

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

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Kwa

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Khasi
Standard Igbo

Language Position

4057
1 120
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Signed Forms

Khasi Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
ig

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kha
ibo

ISO 639 2/B

kha
ibo

ISO 639 3

kha
ibo

ISO 639 6

kha
ibo

Glottocode

khas1269
nucl1417

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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-

Language Morphological Typology

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Agglutinative

Khasi and Igbo Alphabets

Khasi and Igbo Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khasi and Igbo. In Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters while in Igbo Alphabets there are 36 letters. To learn Khasi and Igbo languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khasi and Igbo 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 Igbo greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khasi and Igbo are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Khasi and Igbo Speaking population

Khasi and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khasi and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of Khasi and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 %. 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 Igbo on Khasi vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khasi and Igbo Language Codes

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