Countries
Cambodia
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Lao Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2015
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3341
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
សូម
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
សូរី
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Mappila
Where They Speak
Vietnam
India
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
khmer central
malayalam
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Malayali
Origin
14
9th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early form
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Malayalam
Language Position
129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
mal
ISO 639 2/B
khm
mal
ISO 639 3
khm
mal
ISO 639 6
khm
mal
Glottocode
khme1253
mala1464
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic