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
-
-
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.
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Bengali and Assamese
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2342
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
611
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1431
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kumno
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Thank You
Khublei
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Good Night
thia sukh
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Good Evening
babha janmiet
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good Morning
khublei
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Please
Sngewbha
ଦୟାକରି
Sorry
Map
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Bye
khublei
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
I Love You
ieit ieit
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Excuse Me
map a nga
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Baleswari
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0033,800,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Nonglung
Ganjami
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0033,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Kosli
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00520,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
58
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.84 million33.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.84 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Ka Ktien
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
French Name
khasi
oriya
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Oriya-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[ˈoɽia]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Odias
Origin
1200 AD
3 BC
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 Odia
Language Position
4032
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
or
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
ori
ISO 639 2/B
kha
ori
ISO 639 3
kha
ori
ISO 639 6
kha
ori
Glottocode
khas1269
macr1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-