Countries
Cambodia
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
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Regulated By
-
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Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Lao Language
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5323
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
206
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3314
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Kumno
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Khublei
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
thia sukh
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
khublei
Please
សូម
Sngewbha
Sorry
សូរី
Map
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
khublei
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
map a nga
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
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How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Vietnam
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How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
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How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
65
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
khmer central
khasi
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Khasi people
Origin
14
1200 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
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Branch
-
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Khasi
Language Position
140
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
kha
ISO 639 2/B
khm
kha
ISO 639 3
khm
kha
ISO 639 6
khm
kha
Glottocode
khme1253
khas1269
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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