Countries
Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
4
11
1
14
National Language
Sweden
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Finland
Not Available
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not Available
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
- 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
Norwegian and Danish Language
Not Available
Derived From
Old Norse Language
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
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Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
29
11
23
5
Phonology
How Many Vowels
9
6
6
3
How Many Consonants
18
8
14
4
Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6
5
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
6
Not Available
Greetings
Hello
hej
Kumno
Thank You
tacka dig
Khublei
How Are You?
hur mår du
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
godnatt
thia sukh
Good Evening
god kväll
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
god morgon
khublei
Please
vänligen
Sngewbha
Sorry
ledsen
Map
Bye
hej då
khublei
I Love You
jag älskar dig
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
map a nga
Dialects
Dialect 1
Dialects
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Gabon
Not Available
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
6
Not Available
Dialect 2
Dialects
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Georgia
Not Available
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
2
Not Available
Dialect 3
Dialects
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
France
Not Available
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00
1
Not Available
Total No. Of Dialects
79
33
5
5
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million
99+
0.84 million
99+
Speaking Population
0.13 %
99+
Not Available
Native Speakers
8.70 million
99+
0.84 million
99+
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
29
Not Available
Native Name
Svenska
Not Available
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
suédois
khasi
German Name
Schwedisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Khasi people
History
Origin
13th Century
Not Available
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Not Available
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Swedish
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
Khasi
Language Position
89
99+
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
sv
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swe
kha
ISO 639 2/B
swe
kha
ISO 639 3
swe
kha
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
swed1254
khas1269
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available
