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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
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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  
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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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