Countries
Cambodia
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
-
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Lao Language
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5352
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2011
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3341
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Bengali
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)
nomoskaar
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
subhoraattri
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
subha abeli
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
suprobhaat
Please
សូម
anugroha kori
Sorry
សូរី
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
biḍai
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Assam
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million15.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
khmer central
assamais
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Assamese people
Origin
14
7th century A.D
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Assamese
Language Position
165
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Signed Assamese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
asm
ISO 639 2/B
khm
asm
ISO 639 3
khm
asm
ISO 639 6
khm
asm
Glottocode
khme1253
assa1263
Linguasphere
48-ACB
59-AAF-w
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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