Countries
Cambodia
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
Similar To
Lao Language
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5321
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
205
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3316
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Hoy
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Salamat
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Maayong Buntag
Please
សូម
Palihug
Sorry
សូរី
Ikasubo ko
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Babay
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Boholano
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Bohol
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
Vietnam
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
North Kana
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million14.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Visayan
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
khmer central
cebuano
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Cebuano people
Origin
14
16th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
162
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
khm
ceb
ISO 639 3
khm
ceb
ISO 639 6
khm
ceb
Glottocode
khme1253
cebu1242
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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