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Final -k in Khasi: A secondary phonological pattern

1965; Elsevier BV; Volume: 14; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0024-3841(65)90057-4

1872-6135

Eugénie J. A. Henderson,

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

The Khasi are a group of Mon-Khmer speakers living predominantly in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills region of Megahlaya state in northeastern India, with a smaller number in Assam, West Bengal, and Manipur states. In some sources the Khasi have been called Khuchia. The vast majority of Khasi people (ca. 90%) live in India, with a further 10% living across the border in Bangladesh. Khasi [KHI] is the only language of the Mon-Khmer group of Austroasiatic spoken this far to the west.