Countries
Countries
Cambodia
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
Similar To
Lao Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5328
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
208
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3320
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
410
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
您好
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
谢谢
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
你好吗？
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
晚安
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
晚上好
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
下午好
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
早上好
Please
សូម
请
Sorry
សូរី
遗憾
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
再见
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
我爱你
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
原谅我
Dialects
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
khmer central
cantonais
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Han Chinese
History
Origin
14
17th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
11
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
Code
ISO 639 1
km
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
yue
ISO 639 2/B
khm
yue
ISO 639 3
khm
No data available
ISO 639 6
khm
yue
Glottocode
khme1253
cant1236
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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