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Khasi and Burmese


Burmese and Khasi


Countries

Countries
Meghalaya  
Myanmar  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
1  
14

National Language
Bangladesh, India  
Myanmar  

Second Language
Not Available  
Bangladesh, Burma  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Not Available  
Mon  

Regulated By
Not Available  
Myanmar Language Commission  

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
  • It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Thai Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Pali Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
23  
5
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
12  
9

How Many Consonants
14  
4
33  
23

Scripts
Bengali, Latin  
Tangut  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
Not Available  
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available  
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Kumno  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)  

Thank You
Khublei  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)  

How Are You?
Kumno phi long?  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)  

Good Night
thia sukh  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)  

Good Evening
babha janmiet  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)  

Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)  

Good Morning
khublei  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)  

Please
Sngewbha  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)  

Sorry
Map  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)  

Bye
khublei  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)  

I Love You
ieit ieit  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)  

Excuse Me
map a nga  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bhoi  
Arakanese  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
2,000,000.00  
24

Dialect 2
Nonglung  
Tavoyan  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
440,000.00  
30

Dialect 3
Cherrapunji  
Intha  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
Burma  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
90,000.00  
30

Total No. Of Dialects
5  
5
5  
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.84 million  
99+
43.00 million  
30

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.50 %  
29

Native Speakers
0.84 million  
99+
33.00 million  
28

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
10.00 million  
23

Native Name
Not Available  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)  

Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa  

French Name
khasi  
birman  

German Name
Khasi-Sprache  
Birmanisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Khasi people  
Bamar people  

History

Origin
Not Available  
1113 AD  

Language Family
Austroasiatic Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No Early Forms  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese  

Standard Forms
Khasi  
Modern Burmese  

Language Position
Not Available  
43  
32

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Burmese sign language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available  
my  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
kha  
mya  

ISO 639 2/B
kha  
bur  

ISO 639 3
kha  
mya  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
khas1269  
sout3159  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Analytic, Isolating  

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

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Khasi and Burmese Speaking population

Khasi and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khasi and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Khasi and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khasi language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 %. 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 Khasi and Burmese on Khasi vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khasi and Burmese Language Codes

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

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