Khasi and Sinhalese
Countries
Meghalaya
Sri Lanka
National Language
Bangladesh, India
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not Available
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not Available
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Not Available
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
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Maldivian Language
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
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)
I Love You
ieit ieit
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
map a nga
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Where They Speak
Not Available
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Not Available
Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Not Available
Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Not Available
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
khasi
singhalais
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Khasi
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
khas1269
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
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 , Not Available. 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 Not Available 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.