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Khasi
Khasi

Santali
Santali



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Countries

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

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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Greetings

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

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bhoi
Mahali

Where They Speak

-
India

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.006,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Nonglung
Not present

Where They Speak

-
-

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.006,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Cherrapunji
Not present

Where They Speak

-
-

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.006,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

51
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.84 million6.30 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.02 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.84 million6.30 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million6.50 million
0.01 400
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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

History

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

Code

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

-
-

Khasi and Santali Alphabets

Khasi and Santali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khasi and Santali. In Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters while in Santali Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Khasi and Santali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khasi and Santali languages. The Khasi phonology consist Khasi vowels and Khasi consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Khasi greetings vs Santali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khasi and Santali are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Khasi and Santali Speaking population

Khasi and Santali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khasi and Santali languages can be compared. The total count of Khasi and Santali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Santali language is 0.02 %. 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 Santali on Khasi vs Santali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khasi and Santali Language Codes

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