Countries
Cambodia
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Nigeria
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
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
-
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Lao Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5336
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
208
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3328
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
kedụ
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
dalụ
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
ka chi fo
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
សូម
Biko
Sorry
សូរី
Ndo
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Kachifo
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Enuani
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Not present
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
620
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
igbo
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Ibo
French Name
khmer central
igbo
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Igbo people
Origin
14
30th Century BC
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Igbo
Language Position
157
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
khm
ibo
ISO 639 3
khm
ibo
ISO 639 6
khm
ibo
Glottocode
khme1253
nucl1417
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative