Countries
Cambodia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
-
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Lao Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2024
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3323
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
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
សូម
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
សូរី
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Wu
Where They Speak
Vietnam
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Yue
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
610
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %16.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
khmer central
chinois
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Han
Origin
14
1250 BC
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Chinese
Language Position
11
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
zho
ISO 639 2/B
khm
chi
ISO 639 3
khm
zho
ISO 639 6
khm
zho
Glottocode
khme1253
sini1245
Linguasphere
48-ACB
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating