Khasi

Also 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

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number of speakers, writers, or signers: 843000
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KHA
Wikimedia language code: kha
P10369: Indonesia
name: ꠈꠣꠡꠤꠀ ꠝꠣꠔ
Commons category: Khasi language

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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 met with little success.