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Countries

Countries

Cambodia
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

133
0 46
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National Language

Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Australia, France, United States of America
South Africa

Regulated By

-
-

Interesting Facts

  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Lao Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5326
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

205
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3321
9 60
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Scripts

Khmer
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

47
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Hello

Thank You

សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Thank you

How Are You?

អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ
How are you?

Good Night

រាត្រីលា
Good Night

Good Evening

ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

អរុណ​ប្រចាំឡើង
Good Morning

Please

សូម
Please

Sorry

សូរី
Sorry

Bye

លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Bye

I Love You

បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
I love you

Excuse Me

សូមទាញយក
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Khmer
American English

Where They Speak

Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
United States of America

How Many People Speak

1,400,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Khmer Krom
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Vietnam
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Western Khmer
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Cambodia, Thailand
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

6188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

13.00 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
English

Alternative Names

Cambodian, Khmer
English

French Name

khmer central
anglais

German Name

Kambodschanisch
Englisch

Pronunciation

[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Khmer, Northern Khmer
English people

History

Origin

14
5th Century AD

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Khmer
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Modern Khmer
Standard English

Language Position

13
1 120
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Signed Forms

Khmer Sign Language
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

km
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

khm
eng

ISO 639 2/B

khm
eng

ISO 639 3

khm
eng

ISO 639 6

khm
engs

Glottocode

khme1253
stan1293

Linguasphere

48-ACB
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Khmer and English Alphabets

Khmer and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khmer and English. In Khmer Alphabets there are 53 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Khmer and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khmer and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khmer and English are Most Spoken Languages.

All Khmer and English 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 English dialects. Various dialects of Khmer and English language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Khmer are spoken in different Khmer Speaking Countries whereas English Dialects are spoken in different English speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Khmer vs English Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Khmer dialects include: Northern Khmer, Khmer Krom. English dialects include: American English , Hiberno-English. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Khmer and English Speaking population

Khmer and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khmer and English languages can be compared. The total count of Khmer and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Khmer vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khmer and English Language Codes

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