Khasi

Xhosa

Khasi and Xhosa

Khasi

Xhosa

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Countries

Meghalaya

South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

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National Language

Bangladesh, India

South Africa

Second Language

Lesotho, South Africa

Speaking Continents

Asia

Africa

Minority Language

Botswana, Lesotho

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.

Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.

Similar To

Garo and Jaintia Languages

Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele

Derived From

Khoi-Khoi and San Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2353

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

610

0 32

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How Many Consonants

1443

9 60

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Scripts

Bengali, Latin

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Kumno

Molo

Thank You

Khublei

Ndiyabulela

How Are You?

Kumno phi long?

Unjani

Good Night

thia sukh

Ulale kakuhle

Good Evening

babha janmiet

Ubusuku obuhle

Good Afternoon

babha noph-phai-sngi

Uben' emva kwemini entle

Good Morning

khublei

Molo

Please

Sngewbha

Ndicela

Sorry

Map

Ndicela uxolo

Bye

khublei

Uhambe/Usale kakuhle

I Love You

ieit ieit

Ndiyakuthanda

Excuse Me

map a nga

Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bhoi

Gcaleka

Where They Speak

South Africa

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0019,000,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Nonglung

Thembu

Where They Speak

South Africa

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.0019,000,000.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Cherrapunji

Hlubi

Where They Speak

South Africa

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0019.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.84 million20.00 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.11 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

0.84 million8.20 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million11.00 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

Ka Ktien

isiXhosa

Alternative Names

Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia

“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa

French Name

khasi

xhosa

German Name

Khasi-Sprache

Xhosa-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈkʰɑsi]

[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]

Ethnicity

Khasi people

amaXhosa, amaBhaca

History

Origin

1200 AD

16th Century

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo

Branch

Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Khasi

isiXhosa

Language Position

4021

1 120

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Signed Forms

Khasi Sign Language

Signed Xhosa

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kha

xho

ISO 639 2/B

kha

xho

ISO 639 3

kha

xho

ISO 639 6

kha

xho

Glottocode

khas1269

xhos1239

Linguasphere

No data available

99-AUT-fa

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Khasi and Xhosa Alphabets

Khasi and Xhosa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khasi and Xhosa. In Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters while in Xhosa Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Khasi and Xhosa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khasi and Xhosa 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 Xhosa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khasi and Xhosa are Most Spoken Languages.

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

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Khasi and Xhosa Speaking population

Khasi and Xhosa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khasi and Xhosa languages can be compared. The total count of Khasi and Xhosa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 %. 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 Xhosa on Khasi vs Xhosa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khasi and Xhosa Language Codes

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