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Khasi
Khasi

Sinhalese
Sinhalese



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Countries

Countries

Meghalaya
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, India
Sri Lanka

Second Language

-
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

-
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

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.
  • In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.

Similar To

Garo and Jaintia Languages
Maldivian Language

Derived From

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Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2354
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

618
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1436
9 60
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Scripts

Bengali, Latin
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

62
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kumno
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

Khublei
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Kumno phi long?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

thia sukh
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

babha janmiet
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

babha noph-phai-sngi
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

khublei
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

Sngewbha
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

Map
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

khublei
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

ieit ieit
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

map a nga
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bhoi
Vedda

Where They Speak

-
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Nonglung
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

-
-

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Cherrapunji
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

-
-

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0016,000,000.00
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 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.84 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Ka Ktien
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

khasi
singhalais

German Name

Khasi-Sprache
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈkʰɑsi]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Khasi people
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

1200 AD
3

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

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Indo-Iranian

Branch

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Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Khasi
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

4070
1 120
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Signed Forms

Khasi Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kha
sin

ISO 639 2/B

kha
sin

ISO 639 3

kha
sin

ISO 639 6

kha
sin

Glottocode

khas1269
sinh1246

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional

Khasi and Sinhalese Alphabets

Khasi and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khasi and Sinhalese. In Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Khasi and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khasi and Sinhalese 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 Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khasi and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Khasi and Sinhalese Speaking population

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

Khasi and Sinhalese Language Codes

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