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Khasi and Tibetan


Tibetan and Khasi


Countries

Countries
Meghalaya   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Bangladesh, India   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not Available   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not Available   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets

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

Alphabets
23   
5
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
5   
2

How Many Consonants
14   
4
30   
20

Scripts
Bengali, Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
Not Available   
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available   
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Kumno   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Khublei   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
Kumno phi long?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
thia sukh   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
babha janmiet   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
khublei   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
Sngewbha   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Map   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
khublei   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
ieit ieit   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
map a nga   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bhoi   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Not Available   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Nonglung   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Not Available   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Cherrapunji   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Not Available   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
5   
5
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.84 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
0.84 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
Not Available   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
khasi   
tibétain   

German Name
Khasi-Sprache   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Khasi people   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
Not Available   
c. 650   

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 Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Khasi   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
kha   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
kha   
tib   

ISO 639 3
kha   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
khas1269   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

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

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Khasi and Tibetan Speaking population

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

Khasi and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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