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Santali

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Countries

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
-

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
-

Regulated By

-
-

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

-
-

Alphabets

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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Greetings

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

Dialects

Dialect 1

Mahali
Bhoi

Where They Speak

India
-

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Not present
Nonglung

Where They Speak

-
-

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.001,200,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Cherrapunji

Where They Speak

-
-

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

15
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

6.30 million0.84 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

6.30 million0.84 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.50 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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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

History

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

Code

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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Santali and Khasi Alphabets

Santali and Khasi Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Santali and Khasi. In Santali Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters. To learn Santali and Khasi languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Santali and Khasi languages. The Santali phonology consist Santali vowels and Santali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Santali greetings vs Khasi greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Santali and Khasi are Most Spoken Languages.

All Santali 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 Santali and Khasi dialects. Various dialects of Santali and Khasi language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Santali are spoken in different Santali Speaking Countries whereas Khasi Dialects are spoken in different Khasi speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Santali vs Khasi Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Santali dialects include: Mahali Khasi dialects include: Bhoi , Nonglung. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Santali and Khasi Speaking population

Santali and Khasi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Santali and Khasi languages can be compared. The total count of Santali and Khasi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Santali language is 0.02 % 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 Santali and Khasi on Santali vs Khasi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Santali and Khasi Language Codes

Santali and Khasi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Santali and Khasi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.