Countries
Meghalaya
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, India
Somalia
Second Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
-
Yemen
Regulated By
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National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
-
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2326
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1421
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kumno
Hello
Thank You
Khublei
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
thia sukh
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
babha janmiet
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
khublei
Subax wanaagsan
Please
Sngewbha
Fadlan
Sorry
Map
sorry
Bye
khublei
caraysiiyo
I Love You
ieit ieit
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
map a nga
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
-
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Benaadir
Where They Speak
-
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
-
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.84 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Ka Ktien
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
khasi
somali
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Somali
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Somalis
Origin
1200 AD
19th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khasi
Somali
Language Position
4083
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
som
ISO 639 2/B
kha
som
ISO 639 3
kha
som
ISO 639 6
kha
som
Glottocode
khas1269
soma1255
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-