The contributions examine the trends of Austro-Asiatic languages spoken in North-east India. It focuses on the language of Meghalaya, Khasi, providing a comprehensive survey of varieties of Khasi language in the state. It covers a number of wide range of approaches and practices which basically form modern Khasi linguistics. It studies Khasi dialects to probe the gender-related expressions and multilingualism, as also Santali morphology. It presents a comparison between Shala and Lamin, views the word order of Pnar and analyses the structure of noun phrase in Nongjri which is a variety of Khasi. With tables to present day and referring to works on the subject, its analysis of the languages at the level of phonology, morphology and syntax conforms to basic descriptive linguistics.