Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
Cambodia
National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Kazakh language agency
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
- Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic languages.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
Not Available
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
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Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
Khmer
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
ND
Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
ND
Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
ND
Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
ND
Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
ND
Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)
ND
Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
ND
I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
ND
Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
ND
Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Cambodia, Thailand
Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
kazakh
khmer central
German Name
Kasachisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Kazahks
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Language Family
Turkic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Not Available
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Kazakh
Modern Khmer
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
kaza1248
khme1253
Linguasphere
No data available
Not Available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating
Kazakh 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 Kazakh and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kazakh and Khmer language. Kazakh word for "Hello" is Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be) or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Kazakh Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kazakh vs Khmer Difficulty
The Kazakh vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kazakh 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 Kazakh and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kazakh and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kazakh is 44 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.