Countries
Cambodia
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Iran
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
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
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Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
Similar To
Lao Language
Kurdish and Persian
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5334
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
208
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3326
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
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)
Salam
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
mana bebahgsh
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
chone tao?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
jawáin shap
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
jawáin begáh
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
سلام علیکم
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
jawáin sawáh
Please
សូម
Mihrabani kan
Sorry
សូរី
bebaksh / bebagsh
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
bye
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Tu mana doost biyeh
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
mana bebahgsh
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Eastern Balochi
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Pakistan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Western Balochi
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Southern Balochi
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.003,400,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million7.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million8.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
بلوچی
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Baluchi
French Name
khmer central
baloutchi
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Belutschisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[bəˈloʧi]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Origin
14
19th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Balochi
Language Position
139
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Balochi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
bal
ISO 639 2/B
khm
bal
ISO 639 3
khm
bal
ISO 639 6
khm
bal
Glottocode
khme1253
balo1260
Linguasphere
48-ACB
58-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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