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Khasi and Nepali


Nepali and Khasi


Countries

Countries
Meghalaya  
India, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Bangladesh, India  
Nepal  

Second Language
-  
Republic of Brazil  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
-  
People's Republic of China  

Regulated By
-  
Language Academy of Nepal  

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.
  
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  

Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages  
Hindi  

Derived From
-  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
23  
5
48  
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
12  
9

How Many Consonants
14  
4
36  
26

Scripts
Bengali, Latin  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Kumno  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

Thank You
Khublei  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)  

How Are You?
Kumno phi long?  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)  

Good Night
thia sukh  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)  

Good Evening
babha janmiet  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)  

Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi  
Good afternoon  

Good Morning
khublei  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)  

Please
Sngewbha  
कृपया  

Sorry
Map  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Bye
khublei  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

I Love You
ieit ieit  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)  

Excuse Me
map a nga  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bhoi  
Doteli  

Where They Speak
-  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00  
99+
790,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Nonglung  
Bajhangi  

Where They Speak
-  
India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
17,000,000.00  
29

Dialect 3
Cherrapunji  
Baitadeli  

Where They Speak
-  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00  
99+
17,000,000.00  
26

Total No. Of Dialects
5  
5
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.84 million  
99+
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
0.01 %  
99+
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
0.84 million  
99+
25.00 million  
32

Second Language Speakers
1.50 million  
99+
5.00 million  
99+

Native Name
Ka Ktien  
नेपाली (nēpālī)  

Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate  

French Name
khasi  
népalais  

German Name
Khasi-Sprache  
Nepali  

Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]  
[neˈpali]  

Ethnicity
Khasi people  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu  

History

Origin
1200 AD  
19 BC  

Language Family
Austroasiatic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
-  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
-  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No Early Forms  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha  

Standard Forms
Khasi  
Nepali  

Language Position
40  
37
59  
99+

Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language  
Signed Nepali  

Scope
Individual  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available  
ne  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
kha  
nep  

ISO 639 2/B
kha  
nep  

ISO 639 3
kha  
npi  

ISO 639 6
kha  
nep  

Glottocode
khas1269  
nepa1254  

Linguasphere
No data available  
12  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Agglutinative  

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

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Khasi and Nepali Speaking population

Khasi and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khasi and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Khasi and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. 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 Nepali on Khasi vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khasi and Nepali Language Codes

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

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