Countries
Cambodia
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Ghana
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
-
Akan Orthography Committee
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
Similar To
Lao Language
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5321
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2010
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3316
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Khmer
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
ete-sen
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
meda ase
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
maadwo
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
maadwo
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
maaha
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
maakye
Please
សូម
wae
Sorry
សូរី
Kafra
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
bye
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Asante
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Ghana
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Akuapem
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Ghana
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Fante
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Ghana
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Akan
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Twi, Fante
French Name
khmer central
akan
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[ˈaːkã]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Akan people
Origin
14
15
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Akan
Language Position
1104
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Akan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
km
ak
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
aka
ISO 639 2/B
khm
aka
ISO 639 3
khm
aka
ISO 639 6
khm
aka
Glottocode
khme1253
akan1251
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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