Khasi and Cantonese
Countries
Meghalaya
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Bangladesh, India
China, Guangdong
Second Language
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Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
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Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
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Chinese Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Language Levels
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Time Taken to Learn
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How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
你好吗？
Good Evening
babha janmiet
晚上好
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
下午好
Where They Speak
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outside mainland China
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Xiguan
Where They Speak
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Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
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Hong Kong
Speaking Population
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Native Name
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Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
khasi
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German Name
Khasi-Sprache
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Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Khasi people
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Origin
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17th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
No Early Forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khasi
Standard Cantonese
Signed Forms
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Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
No data available
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ISO 639 2/T
kha
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ISO 639 2/B
kha
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ISO 639 3
kha
No data available
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
khas1269
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Khasi and Cantonese 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 Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Khasi and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Khasi are spoken in different Khasi Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Khasi vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Khasi dialects include: Bhoi, Nonglung. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Khasi and Cantonese Speaking population
Khasi and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khasi and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Khasi and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khasi language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Cantonese on Khasi vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Khasi and Cantonese Language Codes
Khasi and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Khasi and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.