Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Ghana
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
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Interesting Facts
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2153
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1020
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1633
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Khmer
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ete-sen
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
meda ase
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
maadwo
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
maadwo
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
maaha
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
maakye
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
wae
សូម
Sorry
Kafra
សូរី
Bye
bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
Me doכ wo
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Asante
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Ghana
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Akuapem
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Ghana
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Ghana
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
akan
khmer central
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
15
14
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Akan
Modern Khmer
Language Position
1041
1
120
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Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ak
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
khm
ISO 639 2/B
aka
khm
ISO 639 3
aka
khm
ISO 639 6
aka
khm
Glottocode
akan1251
khme1253
Linguasphere
No data available
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating