Editing Khasi language (section)

==Dialects==
Khasi has significant dialectal variation, and this presents a challenge with regard to classifying the [[Khasic languages]].

Khasi dialects is rich and widely different from village to another but Sohra dialuge is a common dialogue and well spoken among the Khasi Tribes:
* [[Cherrapunji|Sohra]] Khasi (Sohra dialogue is a local and mass Communication among the Khasi Tribes which is well known as Khasi language)
* Mylliem Khasi
* Mawlai Khasi
* Nongkrem Khasi
* War Khasi, not to be confused with the closely associated [[War language]]<ref name="Bradley_Mohanty_2023">{{cite journal |last1=Bradley |first1=David |last2=Mohanty |first2=Panchanan |title=Sociolinguistics of South Asia |journal=The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World |date=27 June 2023 |pages=184–196 |doi=10.4324/9781003198345-17}}</ref>
* Bhoi Khasi
* Nonglung

In addition, [[Pnar language|Pnar]], [[Maharam language|Maram]] (including Langrin)<ref name="Nagaraja_1993" /> and [[Lyngngam language|Lyngngam]] have been listed as types of Khasi, although more recent studies seem to indicate that these are sister languages to Khasi, and that Khasi actually began as a marginal Pnar dialect.<ref name="Sidwell_GoogleSites">{{cite web |last1=Sidwell |first1=Pail |title=Paul Sidwell - Khasian Languages Project |url=https://sites.google.com/view/paulsidwell/khasian-languages-project |website=sites.google.com |access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref>

Bhoi, from [[Nongpoh]], and Nonglung from Umsning, in [[Ri-Bhoi district|Ri Bhoi District]], differ substantially from Standard Khasi in their [[syntax|word order]]. They are distinct enough from Standard Khasi to be sometimes considered separate languages,<ref name="Nagaraja_1993">{{cite journal |last1=Nagaraja |first1=KS |title=Khasi dialects: a typological consideration |journal=[[Mon-Khmer Studies]] |date=1993 |volume=23 |page=1-10 |url=http://www.sealang2.net/archives/mks/pdf/23:1-10.pdf |access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref> with Bhoi sometimes classified as intermediate between Khasi and Pnar,{{cn|date=September 2023}} and Nonglung being part of Mnar,{{cn|date=September 2023}} variously classified as a type of War or of Pnar.{{cn|date=September 2023}} On the other hand, Sohra and War Khasi are lexically very similar.{{cn|date=September 2023}}

The Sohra dialect is taken as Standard Khasi, as it was the first dialect to be written in [[Latin alphabet|Latin]] and [[Bengali alphabet|Bengali]] scripts by the British.<ref name="Bradley_Mohanty_2023" /><ref name="Nagaraja_1993" /> While Standard Khasi is spoken by majority in Shillong, it is in turn significantly different from the other Shillong dialects (eight at most) which form a [[dialect continuum]] across the capital region.{{cn|date=September 2023}}