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Countries

Countries

Cambodia
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

17
0 46
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National Language

Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Asia
Europe

Minority Language

Australia, France, United States of America
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

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Council for German Orthography

Interesting Facts

  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

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

Derived From

Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5326
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

2010
0 32
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How Many Consonants

339
9 60
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Scripts

Khmer
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

46
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
hallo

Thank You

សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Danke

How Are You?

អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

រាត្រីលា
gute Nacht

Good Evening

ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

លើកលែងរសៀល
guten Tag

Good Morning

អរុណ​ប្រចាំឡើង
guten Morgen

Please

សូម
bitte

Sorry

សូរី
Verzeihung

Bye

លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Tschüs

I Love You

បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

សូមទាញយក
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Khmer
Swiss German

Where They Speak

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

How Many People Speak

1,400,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Khmer Krom
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Vietnam
Germany

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Western Khmer
Texas German

Where They Speak

Cambodia, Thailand
Texas

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

628
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

13.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Cambodian, Khmer
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

khmer central
allemand

German Name

Kambodschanisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Khmer, Northern Khmer
Germans

History

Origin

14
6th Century AD

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Khmer
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Khmer
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

19
1 120
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Signed Forms

Khmer Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

km
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

khm
deu

ISO 639 2/B

khm
ger

ISO 639 3

khm
deu

ISO 639 6

khm
deus

Glottocode

khme1253
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

48-ACB
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic

Khmer and German Alphabets

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

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

Khmer and German Speaking population

Khmer and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khmer and German languages can be compared. The total count of Khmer and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Khmer vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khmer and German Language Codes

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