Nepali and Khasi
Countries
India, Nepal
Meghalaya
National Language
Nepal
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
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Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
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Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Hindi
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Devanagari
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Kumno
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Khublei
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
thia sukh
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
khublei
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Map
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
khublei
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
map a nga
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Nonglung
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Cherrapunji
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
népalais
khasi
German Name
Nepali
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[neˈpali]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Khasi people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Khasi
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
No data available
Glottocode
nepa1254
khas1269
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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All Nepali and Khasi 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 Nepali and Khasi dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Khasi language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Khasi Dialects are spoken in different Khasi speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Khasi Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Khasi dialects include: Bhoi , Nonglung. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Nepali and Khasi Speaking population
Nepali and Khasi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Khasi languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Khasi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 %. 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 Nepali and Khasi on Nepali vs Khasi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Nepali and Khasi Language Codes
Nepali and Khasi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Nepali and Khasi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.