Countries
Meghalaya
China, Nepal
National Language
Bangladesh, India
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
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Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
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China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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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
Alphabets in
Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
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China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
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Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Amdo Tibetan
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
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
No Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Khasi
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
Glottocode
khas1269
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Khasi and Tibetan 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 Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khasi and Tibetan language. Khasi word for "Hello" is Kumno or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Khasi Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Khasi vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Khasi vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khasi Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khasi and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khasi is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.