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Countries

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

-
Pali and Sanskrit Languages

Alphabets

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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Greetings

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?)
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ

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)
អរុណ​ប្រចាំឡើង

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

Dialects

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

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

History

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

Code

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

Japanese and Khmer Alphabets

Japanese and Khmer Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Khmer. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Khmer Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Japanese and Khmer languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Khmer languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Khmer greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Khmer are Most Spoken Languages.

All Japanese and Khmer Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Japanese and Khmer dialects. Various dialects of Japanese and Khmer language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Japanese are spoken in different Japanese Speaking Countries whereas Khmer Dialects are spoken in different Khmer speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Japanese vs Khmer Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Japanese dialects include: Sanuki, Hakata. Khmer dialects include: Northern Khmer , Khmer Krom. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Japanese and Khmer Speaking population

Japanese and Khmer speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Khmer languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Khmer Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Japanese and Khmer on Japanese vs Khmer where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Khmer Language Codes

Japanese and Khmer language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Japanese and Khmer Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.