Austroasiatic languages such as Palaung and Khmer language: Tiger: in both Khasi and Khmer. To fly: in Khasi, haer in Khmer Belly: in Khasi, poh in Khmer, bung in Vietnamese. New: or in Khasi, thmei or thmai in Khmer, moi in Vietnamese Year: in Khasi, chnem in Khmer, nam in Vietnamese Far: in Khasi, chngay in Khmer, ngay in Vietnamese Leaf: or in Khasi, slaek in Khmer, la in Vietnamese Crab: in Khasi, ktam in Khmer Fingers: in only the pnar dialect (Khasi sub-tribe), mreamdai in Khmer, ngon tay in Vietnamese. Toes: in the pnar dialect (Khasi sub-tribe)], mreamcheung in Khmer, ngon chan in Vietnamese. Children: , or in Khasi, kaun, kon in Khmer, con in Vietnamese Birds: in Khasi, 'chim in Vietnamese Eyes: or in Khasi, mat in Vietnamese Fish: in Khasi, ca in Vietnamese Mother: in Khasi, mẹ in Vietnamese, mea also in the Thai a kra-dai language family Rice: in Khasi, gao in Vietnamese; in Thai also khaw Python: Thlen in Khasi, psathlan in Khmer. There are also words similar to those in Sino-Tibetan languages, such as meaning "I," which is the same in Tibetan, Burmese, and Old Chinese as it is in Khasi. Traces of connections with the Kachin tribe of North Myanmar have also been in the Khasis. The Khasi people also have their own word for the Himalayan mountains which is Ki Lum Mankashang which means that at one point in time, they did cross the mighty mountains. Therefore, all these records and their present culture, features, and language strongly show that they also have a strong Tibeto-Himalayan-Burman influence. The word "Khas" means hills and they have always been people of cold and hilly regions and have never been connected to the plains or arid regions. This nature-loving tribe calls the wettest place on Earth their home. The village of Mawsynram in Meghalaya receives 467 inches of rain per year. Primarily an oral language, they had no script of their own, until the arrival of the Welsh missionaries. The Welsh missionaries originally used the Bengali script before resorting to the Roman script to transcribe the Sohra dialect of the Khasi language. Particularly significant in this regard was a Welsh evangelist, Thomas Jones. Modern times The Khasi first came in contact with the British in 1823, after the latter captured Assam. The area inhabited by the Khasi became a part of the Assam Province after