Countries
China, Nepal
Meghalaya
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
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Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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Interesting Facts
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
- 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
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Alphabets in
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Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Kumno
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Khublei
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
thia sukh
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
khublei
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sngewbha
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Map
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
khublei
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
map a nga
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Bhoi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Cherrapunji
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
tibétain
khasi
German Name
Tibetisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Khasi people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Khasi
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
Glottocode
tibe1272
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan 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 Tibetan and Khasi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Khasi language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Khasi word for "Thank You" is Khublei. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Khasi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Khasi Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Khasi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan 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 Tibetan and Khasi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Khasi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Khasi time required is 44 weeks.