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Khasi vs Chinese


Chinese vs Khasi


Countries

Countries
Meghalaya  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
5  
10

National Language
Bangladesh, India  
China, Taiwan  

Second Language
-  
Republic of Brazil  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
-  
Indonesia, Malaysia  

Regulated By
-  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council  

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.
  
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  

Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages  
Japanese and Korean Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Chinese.jpg#200  

Alphabets
23  
5
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
24  
19

How Many Consonants
14  
4
23  
13

Scripts
Bengali, Latin  
Chinese Characters and derivatives  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
88 weeks  
19

Greetings

Hello
Kumno  
您好 (Nín hǎo)  

Thank You
Khublei  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)  

How Are You?
Kumno phi long?  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)  

Good Night
thia sukh  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)  

Good Evening
babha janmiet  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)  

Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)  

Good Morning
khublei  
早安 (Zǎo ān)  

Please
Sngewbha  
请 (Qǐng)  

Sorry
Map  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)  

Bye
khublei  
再见 (Zàijiàn)  

I Love You
ieit ieit  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)  

Excuse Me
map a nga  
劳驾 (Láojià)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bhoi  
Mandarin  

Where They Speak
-  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00  
99+
960,000,000.00  
1

Dialect 2
Nonglung  
Wu  

Where They Speak
-  
China, United States of America  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
80,000,000.00  
6

Dialect 3
Cherrapunji  
Yue  

Where They Speak
-  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam  

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00  
99+
60,000,000.00  
12

Total No. Of Dialects
5  
5
10  
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.84 million  
99+
1,051.00 million  
2

Speaking Population
0.01 %  
99+
16.00 %  
2

Native Speakers
0.84 million  
99+
873.00 million  
1

Second Language Speakers
1.50 million  
99+
178.00 million  
3

Native Name
Ka Ktien  
中文 (zhōngwén)  

Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia  
Zhongwen, Hanyu  

French Name
khasi  
chinois  

German Name
Khasi-Sprache  
Chinesisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]  
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]  

Ethnicity
Khasi people  
Han  

History

Origin
1200 AD  
1250 BC  

Language Family
Austroasiatic Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
-  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No Early Forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Khasi  
Standard Chinese  

Language Position
40  
37
1  
1

Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available  
zh  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
kha  
zho  

ISO 639 2/B
kha  
chi  

ISO 639 3
kha  
zho  

ISO 639 6
kha  
zho  

Glottocode
khas1269  
sini1245  

Linguasphere
No data available  
79-AAA  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Analytic, Isolating  

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Khasi and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Khasi vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Khasi and Chinese language. History of Khasi language states that this language originated in 1200 AD whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Khasi and Chinese Language History.

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Khasi and Chinese Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Khasi and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khasi and Chinese language. Khasi word for "Hello" is Kumno or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Khasi Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Khasi vs Chinese Difficulty

The Khasi vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khasi Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Khasi and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khasi and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khasi is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.

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