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...
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The Khasi people are an ethnic group of Meghalaya in north-eastern India with a significant population in the bordering state of Assam, and in certain...
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Khāṣi (खाषी) is an Indo-Aryan dialect of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It belongs to the Western Pahari group and is spoken in some of the mountainous areas...
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Look up Khasi or khazi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Khasi may refer to: Khasi people, an ethnic group of Meghalaya, India Khasi language, a major...
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The Khasi–Palaungic languages are a primary branch of the Austroasiatic language family of Southeast Asia in the classification of Sidwell (2011, 2018)...
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Khasi Cinema is the term used to refer to the Khasi language film industry based in Shillong in Meghalaya, India. In 1981, Hamlet Bareh Ngapkynta's 1981...
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Garo-Khasi-Jaintia range and connect with the Purvanchal Range and larger Patkai Range further east. The Khasi Hills, and the whole Garo-Khasi-Jaintia...
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Lyngngam is an Austroasiatic language of Northeast India closely related to Khasic languages. Once listed as a dialect of Khasi, Lyngngam has in recent literature...
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Meghalaya (redirect from Languages of Meghalaya)
1972 by carving out two districts from the state of Assam: (a) the United Khasi Hills and Jaintia Hills and (b) the Garo Hills. The estimated population...
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missionary, who worked among the Khasi people of Meghalaya and Assam in India and of Bangladesh. He recorded the Khasi language in Roman script, and the inscription...
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Taro (category Articles containing Khasi-language text)
been borrowed and spread from an Austroasiatic language perhaps in Borneo (cf. proto-Mon-Khmer *t2rawʔ, Khasi shriew, Khmu sroʔ, Mlabri kwaaj,...). The Ancient...
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Garo language. Me∙gam people are ethnically Garo but Me.gam people of Khasi Hills has been influenced by Khasi language and hence the Me.gam of Khasi Hills...
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Pnar people (category Khasi people)
the Khasi people in Meghalaya, India. The Pnar people are matrilineal. They speak the Pnar Language, which belongs to the Austro-Asiatic language family...
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Ethnic minorities in Bangladesh (category CS1 uses Bengali-language script (bn))
means "the seven huts" in the Khasi language. Their language Khasi is the northernmost Austroasiatic language. This language was essentially oral until the...
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Lakh (category Articles containing Khasi-language text)
ލައްކަ la'kha Gujarati: લાખ lākh Kannada: ಲಕ್ಷ lakṣha Kashmiri: لَچھ lachh Khasi: lak Malayalam: ലക്ഷം laksham Marathi: लाख/लक्ष lākh/laksha Meitei: ꯂꯥꯛ...
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name of Khanapara was Kainapara. Kaina is a Khasi word, which means elephant, while Para in Khasi language means human settlements or colony. Bhetapara...
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Glottal stop (category Articles containing Khasi-language text)
or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely...
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Jesus (name) (category Articles containing Khasi-language text)
particularly in England, but gradually declined in usage as the English language evolved. Jesus is usually not used as a given name in the English-speaking...
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East Khasi Hills is an administrative district in the state of Meghalaya in India. The district headquarters are located at Shillong. The district occupies...
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Rubus ellipticus (category Articles containing Khasi-language text)
Garhwali, nyinch (Nyishi: निंच) in Nyishi, and sohshiah (Khasi: सोहशियाह) in Khasi language. The golden Himalayan raspberry's origin is in the temperate...
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Tirot Sing (category Khasi people)
of the Khasi people in the early 19th century. He drew his lineage from the Syiemlieh clan. He was Syiem (king) of Nongkhlaw, part of the Khasi Hills....
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Babu Jeebon Roy Mairom (category Khasi people)
Babu Jeebon Roy is known as the "Father of Modern Khasis" for his contribution to Khasi language, literature, linguistics, entrepreneurship and education...
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Krem Liat Prah (category Articles containing Khasi-language text)
it is one of the longest limestone caves in the world. Prah (Krem is the Khasi word for "cave") is one of approximately 150 known caves in the Shnongrim...
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Ultimogeniture (category Articles containing Khasi-language text)
farm workers. In India, matrilineal ultimogeniture is practiced by the Khasi people of Meghalaya in which inheritance is traditionally passed down to...
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as various smaller and/or regional languages, such as the Munda and Khasi languages spoken in eastern India, and others in Laos, southern China and parts...
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Austroasiatic language in the Khasic branch spoken by about 16,000 people in Bangladesh and 51,000 people in India. It is not to be confused with Khasi War, a...
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30,957 m (101,600 ft) long. The word "Krem" means cave in the local Khasi language. The exploration of the Caves of Meghalaya is currently undertaken for...
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Munda languages (India) Koraput: 7 languages Core Munda languages Kharian–Juang: 2 languages North Munda languages Korku Kherwarian: 12 languages Khasi–Khmuic...
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one of the Garo dialects in Garo Hills and And in Khasi Hills which is a part of Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Mymensingh and in Kalmakanda subdistrict...
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Voiced velar nasal (category Articles containing Khasi-language text)
of the languages of the Americas, the Middle East, or the Caucasus, but it is extremely common among Australian Aboriginal languages, languages of Sub-Saharan...
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