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Nepali vs Khasi


Khasi vs Nepali


Countries

Countries
India, Nepal  
Meghalaya  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal  
Bangladesh, India  

Second Language
Republic of Brazil  
-  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
People's Republic of China  
-  

Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal  
-  

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  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
48  
28
23  
5

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12  
9
6  
3

How Many Consonants
36  
26
14  
4

Scripts
Devanagari  
Bengali, Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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  

Please
कृपया  
Sngewbha  

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doteli  
Bhoi  

Where They Speak
Nepal  
-  

How Many People Speak
790,000.00  
99+
1,500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Bajhangi  
Nonglung  

Where They Speak
India, Nepal  
-  

How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00  
29
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Baitadeli  
Cherrapunji  

Where They Speak
Nepal  
-  

How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00  
26
1,500,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
12  
12
5  
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
30.00 million  
36
0.84 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.25 %  
99+
0.01 %  
99+

Native Speakers
25.00 million  
32
0.84 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million  
99+
1.50 million  
99+

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  

History

Origin
19 BC  
1200 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Austroasiatic Family  

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian  
-  

Branch
Indic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha  
No Early Forms  

Standard Forms
Nepali  
Khasi  

Language Position
59  
99+
40  
37

Signed Forms
Signed Nepali  
Khasi Sign Language  

Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ne  
No data available  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
nep  
kha  

ISO 639 2/B
nep  
kha  

ISO 639 3
npi  
kha  

ISO 639 6
nep  
kha  

Glottocode
nepa1254  
khas1269  

Linguasphere
12  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
-  

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Nepali and Khasi Language History

Comparison of Nepali vs Khasi language history gives us differences between origin of Nepali and Khasi language. History of Nepali language states that this language originated in 19 BC whereas history of Khasi language states that this language originated in 1200 AD. 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 Nepali and Khasi Language History.

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Nepali and Khasi 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 Nepali and Khasi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Khasi language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Khasi word for "Thank You" is Khublei. Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Khasi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Nepali vs Khasi Difficulty

The Nepali vs Khasi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali Alphabets and Khasi 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 Nepali and Khasi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Khasi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Khasi time required is 44 weeks.

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