Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
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Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2653
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2420
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2333
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
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
请 (Qǐng)
សូម
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
សូរី
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
106
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
chinois
khmer central
German Name
Chinesisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Han
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
1250 BC
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Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Khmer
Language Position
11
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
khm
ISO 639 2/B
chi
khm
ISO 639 3
zho
khm
ISO 639 6
zho
khm
Glottocode
sini1245
khme1253
Linguasphere
79-AAA
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating