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Croatian vs Khmer


Khmer vs Croatian


Countries

Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  
Cambodia  

Total No. Of Countries
9  
7
1  
14

National Language
Austria  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  
Australia, France, United States of America  

Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  
-  

Interesting Facts
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  

Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian  
Lao Language  

Derived From
Church Slavonic  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
53  
32

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
20  
17

How Many Consonants
25  
15
33  
23

Scripts
Latin  
Khmer  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
bok  
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)  

Thank You
hvala  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)  

How Are You?
kako si  
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ  

Good Night
laku noć  
រាត្រីលា  

Good Evening
dobra večer  
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ  

Good Afternoon
dobar dan  
លើកលែងរសៀល  

Good Morning
dobro jutro  
អរុណ​ប្រចាំឡើង  

Please
molim  
សូម  

Sorry
Oprostite  
សូរី  

Bye
Doviđenja  
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)  

I Love You
Volim te  
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន  

Excuse Me
Ispričavam se  
សូមទាញយក  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chakavian  
Northern Khmer  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Khmer Krom  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Vietnam  

How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Shtokavian  
Western Khmer  

Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  
Cambodia, Thailand  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
28
16,000,000.00  
27

Total No. Of Dialects
79  
33
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
89.00 million  
18
16.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
89.00 %  
1
0.24 %  
99+

Native Speakers
5.60 million  
99+
13.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million  
99+
16.00 million  
33

Native Name
hrvatski  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)  

Alternative Names
Hrvatski  
Cambodian, Khmer  

French Name
croate  
khmer central  

German Name
Kroatisch  
Kambodschanisch  

Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]  

Ethnicity
Croats  
Khmer, Northern Khmer  

History

Origin
9th century  
14  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Austroasiatic Family  

Subgroup
-  
-  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Khmer  

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  
Modern Khmer  

Language Position
23  
21
1  
1

Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language  
Khmer Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
hr  
km  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hrv  
khm  

ISO 639 2/B
hrv  
khm  

ISO 639 3
hrv  
khm  

ISO 639 6
hrv  
khm  

Glottocode
croa1245  
khme1253  

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g  
48-ACB  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Analytic, Isolating  

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Croatian and Khmer Language History

Comparison of Croatian vs Khmer language history gives us differences between origin of Croatian and Khmer language. History of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century whereas history of Khmer language states that this language originated in 14. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Croatian and Khmer Language History.

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Croatian 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 Croatian and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Khmer language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Croatian vs Khmer Difficulty

The Croatian vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian 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 Croatian and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.

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