Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Lao Language
Derived From
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Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2853
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
820
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2033
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Khmer
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
104
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
谢谢
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
你好吗？
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
晚安
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
晚上好
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
下午好
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
早上好
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
请
សូម
Sorry
遗憾
សូរី
Bye
再见
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
我爱你
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
原谅我
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
cantonais
khmer central
German Name
Kantonesisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
17th century
14
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Khmer
Language Position
11
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
khm
ISO 639 2/B
yue
khm
ISO 639 3
No data available
khm
ISO 639 6
yue
khm
Glottocode
cant1236
khme1253
Linguasphere
No data available
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating