Countries
Cambodia
India, No official status
Total No. Of Countries
10
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
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
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Regulated By
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Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
Similar To
Lao Language
Maithili and Magahi
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5343
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2011
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3334
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
प्रणाम (prannam)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
राम राम (raam raam)
Please
សូម
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
Sorry
សូរី
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
प्रणाम (prannam)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Caribbean Hindustani
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0016,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Fiji Hindi
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00380,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Tharu Bhojpuri
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
India
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
613
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.43 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
French Name
khmer central
bhojpuri
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Bhojpuri
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Bhojpuri speakers
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
Bhojpuri
Language Position
137
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
bho
ISO 639 2/B
khm
bho
ISO 639 3
khm
bho
ISO 639 6
khm
bho
Glottocode
khme1253
bhoj1246
Linguasphere
48-ACB
59-AAF-sa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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