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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cambodia
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
  • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Lao Language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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53
Rank: 32 (Overall)
28
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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20
Rank: 17 (Overall)
8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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33
Rank: 23 (Overall)
20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Khmer
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
10
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
ND
您好
3.2 Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ
你好吗?
3.4 Good Night
ND
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
ND
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
ND
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
ND
早上好
3.8 Please
ND
3.9 Sorry
ND
遗憾
3.10 Bye
ND
再见
3.11 I Love You
ND
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
ND
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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1,400,000.00
Rank: 26 (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Xiguan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Vietnam
Hong Kong
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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1,200,000.00
Rank: 24 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Hong Kong
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Hong Kong
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
About English L..
6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
60.00 million
Rank: 27 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.24 %
Rank: 42 (Overall)
16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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13.00 million
Rank: 43 (Overall)
52.00 million
Rank: 21 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
khmer central
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5.3.5 German Name
Kambodschanisch
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5.4 Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
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5.5 Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
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6 History
6.1 Origin
14
17th century
6.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
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6.4 Scope
Individual
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7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
km
No data available
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
khm
Not Available
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
khm
Not Available
7.3 ISO 639 3
khm
No data available
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
khme1253
cant1236
7.6 Linguasphere
Not Available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
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7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Khmer and Cantonese Alphabets

Khmer and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khmer and Cantonese. In Khmer Alphabets there are 53 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Khmer and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khmer and Cantonese languages. The Khmer phonology consist Khmer vowels and Khmer consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Khmer greetings vs Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khmer and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Khmer and Cantonese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Khmer and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Khmer and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Khmer are spoken in different Khmer Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Khmer vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Khmer dialects include: Northern Khmer, Khmer Krom. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Khmer and Cantonese Speaking population

Khmer and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khmer and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Khmer and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Khmer and Cantonese on Khmer vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khmer and Cantonese Language Codes

Khmer and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Khmer and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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