Countries
Japan
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Korean Language
Lao Language
Derived From
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Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9953
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
520
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1433
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Khmer
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
សូម
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
សូរី
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
kansai
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
316
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
128.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.90 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
japonais
khmer central
German Name
Japanisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
1185
14
Language Family
Japonic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Japanese
Modern Khmer
Language Position
81
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
khm
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
khm
ISO 639 3
jpn
khm
ISO 639 6
jpn
khm
Glottocode
nucl1643
khme1253
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating