Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Indonesia
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
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Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
- 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.
Similar To
Indonesian Language
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
Tamil Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2623
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2414
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
Kumno
Thank You
terima kasih
Khublei
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
Selamat Malam
thia sukh
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
khublei
Please
sila
Sngewbha
Sorry
maaf
Map
Bye
Selamat tinggal
khublei
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
map a nga
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
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How Many People Speak
1,600,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pekal
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Indonesia
-
How Many People Speak
30,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Musi
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Indonesia
-
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
245
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
77.00 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa melayu
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
malais
khasi
German Name
Malaiisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Khasi people
Origin
c. 683 AD
1200 AD
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Khasi
Language Position
5440
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ms
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
kha
ISO 639 2/B
may
kha
ISO 639 3
zsm
kha
ISO 639 6
may
kha
Glottocode
stan1306
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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