Khasi
Khasi is an Austroasiatic language spoken in India and Bangladesh, by about 865 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Khasi (Ka Ktien Khasi) is an Austroasiatic language with just over a million speakers in north-east India, primarily the Khasi people in the state of Meghalaya. The closest relatives of Khasi are the other languages in the Khasic group of the Shillong Plateau; these include Pnar, Lyngngam and War.
Khasi is written using the Latin script. In the first half of the 19th century, attempts to write Khasi in Bengali-Assamese script were met with little success.
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Written down
Ïa ki bynriew baroh la kha laitluid bad ki ïaryngkat ha ka burom bad ki hok. Ha ki la bsiap da ka bor pyrkhat bad ka jingïatiplem bad ha ka mynsiem jingsngew shipara ki dei ban ïatrei bynrap lang.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Khasi
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | kmie | |
| father | kpa | |
| woman | kynthei | |
| eye | khmat | |
| nose | khmut | |
| hand | kti | |
| water | um | |
| sun | sngi | |
| rain | slap | |
| river | wah | |
| tree | dieng | |
| leaf | sla | |
| dog | ksew | |
| cat | miaw | |
| bird | sim | |
| cow | masi | |
| pig | sniang | |
| five | san | |
| eat | bam | |
| die | iap | |
| tea | sha |
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- PnarAustroasiatic52% alike
- India LyngamAustroasiatic40% alike
- War-JaintiaAustroasiatic24% alike
- Shwe PalaungAustroasiatic14% alike
- VietnameseAustroasiatic14% alike
- Pangwa NagaSino-Tibetan13% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
Glottolog · khas1269 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · kha