Countries
Meghalaya
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
India
Second Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2352
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
616
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1436
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kumno
Namaskar
Thank You
Khublei
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
kaso assa?
Good Night
thia sukh
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
babha janmiet
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
khublei
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Sngewbha
Chike
Sorry
Map
Maf kor
Bye
khublei
Adeus
I Love You
ieit ieit
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
map a nga
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Antruz
Where They Speak
-
Goa
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
51
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.84 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Ka Ktien
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
khasi
konkani
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Konkanis
Origin
1200 AD
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khasi
Kokani
Language Position
4023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
kok
ISO 639 2/B
kha
kok
ISO 639 3
kha
kok
ISO 639 6
kha
kok
Glottocode
khas1269
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-