Countries
Cambodia
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Abkhazia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Lao Language
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5362
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
202
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3360
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
សូម
амритана
Sorry
សូរី
Амарахь
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
-
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Sadz
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Turkey
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million0.13 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million-
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
khmer central
abkhaze
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Abkhaz people
Origin
14
c. 1650
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Abkhaz
Language Position
128
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
abk
ISO 639 2/B
khm
abk
ISO 639 3
khm
abk
ISO 639 6
khm
abks
Glottocode
khme1253
abkh1244
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative