Countries
Cambodia
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Zambia
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
Lao Language
Zulu language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5331
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
205
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3318
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks32 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Moni
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Zikomo
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Masana abwino
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
M'mawa wabwino
Please
សូម
Chonde
Sorry
សូរី
pepani
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
anatsanzikana
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Pepani
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Kasungu
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,200,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
65
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million12.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
khmer central
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[ˈtʃewa]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Chewa people
Origin
14
15th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Chewa
Language Position
127
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Chewa Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
ny
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
nya
ISO 639 2/B
khm
nya
ISO 639 3
khm
nya
ISO 639 6
khm
nya
Glottocode
khme1253
nyan1308
Linguasphere
48-ACB
99-AUS-xaa – xag
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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