Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Cambodia
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
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Lao Language
Derived From
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Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Khmer
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
ND
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
ND
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
ND
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
ND
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
ND
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Vietnam
Dialect 3
Yue
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
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Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
chinois
khmer central
German Name
Chinesisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Han
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Khmer
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
sini1245
khme1253
Linguasphere
79-AAA
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Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating
Chinese and Khmer Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Khmer language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Khmer Difficulty
The Chinese vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Khmer Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.