Countries
Meghalaya
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
India, Pakistan
Second Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2344
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
617
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1427
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kumno
Assalām ‘alaikum
Thank You
Khublei
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Good Night
thia sukh
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
Good Evening
babha janmiet
سہا مسا
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
Hach t'ochoktiya
Good Morning
khublei
Hach ch'i
Please
Sngewbha
مهربانی کر
Sorry
Map
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
Bye
khublei
Khuda hāfiz
I Love You
ieit ieit
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Excuse Me
map a nga
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Kashtawari
Where They Speak
-
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Poguli
Where They Speak
-
Pogul and Paristan valleys
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Rambani
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.005,600,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million5.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.84 million5.42 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Ka Ktien
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
French Name
khasi
kashmiri
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Kaschmiri
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[kəːʃur]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Kashmiris or koshur
Origin
1200 AD
12th 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
Kashmiri
Language Position
4023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ks
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
kas
ISO 639 2/B
kha
kas
ISO 639 3
kha
kas
ISO 639 6
kha
kas
Glottocode
khas1269
kash1277
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-