Countries
India
  
Meghalaya
  
National Language
Bangladesh, India
  
Bangladesh, India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not Available
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
  
Not Available
  
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
- 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
Bengali and Oriya
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Assamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali
  
Bengali, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
nomoskaar
  
Kumno
  
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
  
Khublei
  
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
  
Kumno phi long?
  
Good Night
subhoraattri
  
thia sukh
  
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
  
babha janmiet
  
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
  
babha noph-phai-sngi
  
Good Morning
suprobhaat
  
khublei
  
Please
anugroha kori
  
Sngewbha
  
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
  
Map
  
Bye
biḍai
  
khublei
  
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
  
ieit ieit
  
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
  
map a nga
  
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
  
Bhoi
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Goalpariya
  
Nonglung
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
  
Cherrapunji
  
Where They Speak
Assam
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million
  
99+
0.84 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
0.84 million
  
99+
Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
  
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
  
French Name
assamais
  
khasi
  
German Name
Assamesisch
  
Khasi-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Assamese people
  
Khasi people
  
Origin
7th century A.D
  
Not Available
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Kamarupa
  
No Early Forms
  
Standard Forms
Assamese
  
Khasi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
as
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
asm
  
kha
  
ISO 639 2/B
asm
  
kha
  
ISO 639 3
asm
  
kha
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
assa1263
  
khas1269
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
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Assamese 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 Assamese and Khasi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Assamese and Khasi language. Assamese word for "Hello" is nomoskaar or Khasi word for "Thank You" is Khublei. Find more of such common Assamese Greetings and Khasi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Assamese vs Khasi Difficulty
The Assamese vs Khasi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Assamese 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 Assamese and Khasi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Assamese and Khasi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Assamese is Not Available while to learn Khasi time required is Not Available.