Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
720
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3133
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
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
Selam
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
Dehna dur
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
i'bakwon
សូម
Sorry
aznallehu
សូរី
Bye
tschao
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
yiqirta
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Gondar
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Gondar
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
56
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
18.70 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.37 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
አማርኛ
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
amharique
khmer central
German Name
Amharisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
13th century
14
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
Ethiopic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Amharic
Modern Khmer
Language Position
551
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
khm
ISO 639 2/B
amh
khm
ISO 639 3
amh
khm
ISO 639 6
amh
khm
Glottocode
amha1245
khme1253
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating