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Khasi
Sign in to saveAlso known as Khasi language, kha, Khāsi, Khasi tongue, Khasi dialect, খাসি, खासी, Khasi bhasa
Austroasiatic language of Meghalaya state, India
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- /ka kt̪eːn kʰasi/
- Native to
- India
- Region
- Meghalaya
- Ethnicity
- Khasi
- Native speakers
- 1 million (2011 census)
- Language family
- Austroasiatic Khasi-Palaungic Khasic Khasi
- Writing system
- Latin (Khasi alphabet), Bengali-Assamese
- Official language in
- India Meghalaya
- Iso 639 2
- kha
- Iso 639 3
- kha
- Glottolog
- khas1269
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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 met with little success.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Khasi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.