Countries
India
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Regulated By
-
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Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3023
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2114
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Henda ho
Kumno
Thank You
Adi Johar
Khublei
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
thia sukh
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
khublei
Please
দয়া করে
Sngewbha
Sorry
দুঃখিত
Map
Bye
Hariau
khublei
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
map a nga
Dialect 1
Mahali
Bhoi
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Nonglung
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
15
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million0.84 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
santal
khasi
German Name
Santali
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Khasi people
Origin
20th century
1200 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Santali
Khasi
Language Position
4140
1
120
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Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
kha
ISO 639 2/B
sat
kha
ISO 639 3
sat
kha
ISO 639 6
sat
kha
Glottocode
sant1410
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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