About Khmer Language | Khmer | Alphabets in Khmer

Countries

Cambodia

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Australia, France, United States of America

Regulated By

Interesting Facts

Khmer is not the tonal language.
Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.

Similar To

Lao Language

Derived From

Pali and Sanskrit Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 32 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 17 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 23 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Khmer

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 3 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)

Thank You

សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)

How Are You?

អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ

Good Night

រាត្រីលា

Good Evening

ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ

Good Afternoon

លើកលែងរសៀល

Good Morning

អរុណប្រចាំឡើង

Please

សូម

Sorry

សូរី

Bye

លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)

I Love You

បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន

Excuse Me

សូមទាញយក

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Khmer

Where They Speak

Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America

How Many People Speak

1,400,000.00

Rank: 58 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Khmer Krom

Where They Speak

Vietnam

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00

Rank: 62 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Western Khmer

Where They Speak

Cambodia, Thailand

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.00

Rank: 27 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million

Rank: 45 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.24 %

Rank: 44 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

13.00 million

Rank: 43 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million

Rank: 33 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)

Alternative Names

Cambodian, Khmer

French Name

khmer central

German Name

Kambodschanisch

Pronunciation

[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]

Ethnicity

Khmer, Northern Khmer

History

Origin

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Khmer

Standard Forms

Modern Khmer

Language Position

Rank: 1 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Khmer Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

khm

ISO 639 2/B

khm

ISO 639 3

khm

ISO 639 6

khm

Glottocode

khme1253

Linguasphere

48-ACB

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating

Know Alphabets in Khmer

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Khmer Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Khmer Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Khmer. Khmer phonology gives Khmer vowels and Khmer consonants. There are 20 vowels and 33 consonants in Khmer language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Khmer is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Khmer language is given in detail in this section.

All Khmer countries

Want to explore all Khmer countries? About Khmer language serves you with all Khmer Speaking Countries. Countries that use Khmer as official language are called as Khmer countries.

Countries that use Khmer as their National Language are: Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Khmer as second language are: Khmer is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Khmer greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Khmer Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Khmer language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Khmer language.Learn Khmer greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank you: សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Good Morning: អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Good Evening: ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon: លើកលែងរសៀល

All Khmer Language Codes

Get to know all Khmer language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Khmer Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.