Countries
Nigeria
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
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
Equatorial Guinea
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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Interesting Facts
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3653
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
820
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2833
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Khmer
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
dalụ
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
ka chi fo
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
Biko
សូម
Sorry
Ndo
សូរី
Bye
Kachifo
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Enuani
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
-
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
24.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
206
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
25.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
igbo
khmer central
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
30th Century BC
14
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Kwa
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Modern Khmer
Language Position
571
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
khm
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
khm
ISO 639 3
ibo
khm
ISO 639 6
ibo
khm
Glottocode
nucl1417
khme1253
Linguasphere
No data available
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating