Countries
Cambodia
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Lao Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5327
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
206
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3321
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Halo
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
piye kabare?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Sugeng énjing
Please
សូម
matur nuwun
Sorry
សូរី
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Arekan
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
616
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
khmer central
javanais
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
14
450 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Javanese
Language Position
111
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
jav
ISO 639 2/B
khm
jav
ISO 639 3
khm
jav
ISO 639 6
khm
jav
Glottocode
khme1253
java1253
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