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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Old German Language
Derived From
-
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2352
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
616
0
32
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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 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kumno
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
Khublei
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
thia sukh
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
babha janmiet
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
khublei
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
Sngewbha
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
Map
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
khublei
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
ieit ieit
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
map a nga
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
50
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million14.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.84 million14.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million-
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Ka Ktien
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
khasi
sanskrit
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
1200 AD
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Khasi
Sanskrit
Language Position
4023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
-
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
san
ISO 639 2/B
kha
san
ISO 639 3
kha
san
ISO 639 6
kha
san
Glottocode
khas1269
sans1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic