Countries
Meghalaya
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Munda Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1421
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, 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
Henda ho
Thank You
Khublei
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
thia sukh
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
babha janmiet
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
संध्यायान
Good Morning
khublei
Boge Setak’
Please
Sngewbha
দয়া করে
Sorry
Map
দুঃখিত
Bye
khublei
Hariau
I Love You
ieit ieit
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
map a nga
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Mahali
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
51
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.84 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million6.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Ka Ktien
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
khasi
santal
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
1200 AD
20th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khasi
Santali
Language Position
4041
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
sat
ISO 639 2/B
kha
sat
ISO 639 3
kha
sat
ISO 639 6
kha
sat
Glottocode
khas1269
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-