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Khasi
Khasi

Swahili
Swahili



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Countries

Countries

Meghalaya
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

14
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, India
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

-
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa

Minority Language

-
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

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.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Garo and Jaintia Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

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Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2324
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
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kumno
Habari

Thank You

Khublei
Asante

How Are You?

Kumno phi long?
Habari gani?

Good Night

thia sukh
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

babha janmiet
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

babha noph-phai-sngi
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

khublei
Habari za asubuhi

Please

Sngewbha
tafadhali

Sorry

Map
pole

Bye

khublei
bye

I Love You

ieit ieit
nakupenda

Excuse Me

map a nga
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bhoi
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

-
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Nonglung
Kimrima

Where They Speak

-
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Cherrapunji
Kimgao

Where They Speak

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Kilwa

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

512
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.84 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.84 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Ka Ktien
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

khasi
swahili

German Name

Khasi-Sprache
Swahili

Pronunciation

[ˈkʰɑsi]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Khasi people
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

1200 AD
6th century

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

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Benue-Congo

Branch

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Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Khasi
Swahili

Language Position

4021
1 120
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Signed Forms

Khasi Sign Language
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kha
swa

ISO 639 2/B

kha
swa

ISO 639 3

kha
swa

ISO 639 6

kha
swa

Glottocode

khas1269
swah1254

Linguasphere

No data available
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

-
-

Khasi and Swahili Alphabets

Khasi and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khasi and Swahili. In Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Khasi and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khasi and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khasi and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Khasi and Swahili Speaking population

Khasi and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khasi and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Khasi and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. 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 Swahili on Khasi vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khasi and Swahili Language Codes

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