Countries
Cambodia
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
East Timor, Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
-
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Lao Language
Malay language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
206
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3319
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
47
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Halo
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Terima kasih
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Apa kabar?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Selamat Pagi
Please
សូម
mohon Untuk
Sorry
សូរី
maaf
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Permisi
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Sundanese
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Balinese
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.003,300,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Indonesia, Malaysia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
646
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
khmer central
indonésien
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Indonesians
Origin
14
7th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Old Malay
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Indonesian
Language Position
156
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
id
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
ind
ISO 639 2/B
khm
ind
ISO 639 3
khm
ind
ISO 639 6
khm
ind
Glottocode
khme1253
indo1316
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative