Countries
Meghalaya
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
-
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
-
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1430
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kumno
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Khublei
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
thia sukh
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
babha janmiet
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
khublei
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Sngewbha
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Map
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
khublei
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
ieit ieit
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
map a nga
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Nonglung
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
China
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
56
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.84 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Ka Ktien
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
khasi
tibétain
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
tibetan people
Origin
1200 AD
c. 650
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Khasi
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
4029
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
bod
ISO 639 2/B
kha
tib
ISO 639 3
kha
bod
ISO 639 6
kha
bod
Glottocode
khas1269
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-