Countries
Meghalaya
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
India
Second Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Kannada Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2351
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
616
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1435
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kumno
Namaskara
Thank You
Khublei
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
thia sukh
yedde rathre
Good Evening
babha janmiet
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
khublei
yedde kaande
Please
Sngewbha
Daya maltadu
Sorry
Map
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
khublei
Barpe
I Love You
ieit ieit
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
map a nga
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
-
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Nonglung
Jain
Where They Speak
-
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Girijan
Where They Speak
-
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.002.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.84 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Ka Ktien
Tulu
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
khasi
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German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Tulu
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Tuluva
Origin
1200 AD
14
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khasi
Tulu
Language Position
4023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
kha
tul
ISO 639 3
kha
tcy
ISO 639 6
kha
tcy
Glottocode
khas1269
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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