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Khasi
Khasi

Somali
Somali



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Countries

Countries

Meghalaya
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia

Total No. Of Countries

13
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, India
Somalia

Second Language

-
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Middle East

Minority Language

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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

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Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2326
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1421
9 60
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Scripts

Bengali, Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks52 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

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

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bhoi
Northern Somali

Where They Speak

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Gabon, Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Nonglung
Benaadir

Where They Speak

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Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.0016,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Cherrapunji
Af-Ashraaf

Where They Speak

-
Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0021.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

53
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.84 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.84 million8.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million21.00 million
0.01 400
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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

History

Origin

1200 AD
19th century

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

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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

Code

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

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
-

Khasi and Somali Alphabets

Khasi and Somali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khasi and Somali. In Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters while in Somali Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Khasi and Somali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khasi and Somali 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 Somali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khasi and Somali are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Khasi and Somali Speaking population

Khasi and Somali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khasi and Somali languages can be compared. The total count of Khasi and Somali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Somali language is 0.07 %. 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 Somali on Khasi vs Somali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khasi and Somali Language Codes

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