Countries
Cambodia
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Ethiopia
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
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Lao Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
207
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3331
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Selam
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Dehina newot?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Dehna dur
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
i'ndemin adäru
Please
សូម
i'bakwon
Sorry
សូរី
aznallehu
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
tschao
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Gondar
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Gondar
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Showa
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
65
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
khmer central
amharique
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Amharas
Origin
14
13th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Amharic
Language Position
155
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
amh
ISO 639 2/B
khm
amh
ISO 639 3
khm
amh
ISO 639 6
khm
amh
Glottocode
khme1253
amha1245
Linguasphere
48-ACB
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional