Countries
Cambodia
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Lao Language
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5321
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
205
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3319
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Bwakeye
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Urakoze
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Urakomeye?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Mwaramutse
Please
សូម
Ndagusavye
Sorry
សូរី
Ndasubiza
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
N’agasaga
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Ha
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Shubi
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
khmer central
rundi
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
14
1500
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Kirundi
Language Position
186
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
km
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
run
ISO 639 2/B
khm
run
ISO 639 3
khm
run
ISO 639 6
khm
run
Glottocode
khme1253
rund1242
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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