Countries
Meghalaya
India, Nepal
National Language
Bangladesh, India
Nepal
Second Language
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Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
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People's Republic of China
Regulated By
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Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Hindi
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Kumno
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Khublei
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
thia sukh
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
babha janmiet
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good afternoon
Good Morning
khublei
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Sorry
Map
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
khublei
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
ieit ieit
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
map a nga
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
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India, Nepal
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Baitadeli
Native Name
Ka Ktien
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
khasi
népalais
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
No Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Khasi
Nepali
Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
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Glottocode
khas1269
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative