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Khmer
Khmer

Malaysian
Malaysian



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Countries

Countries

Cambodia
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore

Total No. Of Countries

13
0 46
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National Language

Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Malaysia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Australia, France, United States of America
Thailand

Regulated By

-
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka

Interesting Facts

  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  • One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
  • Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.

Similar To

Lao Language
Indonesian Language

Derived From

Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Tamil Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5326
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

206
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3324
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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Greetings

Hello

ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Hai

Thank You

សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
terima kasih

How Are You?

អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ
Apa khabar?

Good Night

រាត្រីលា
Selamat Malam

Good Evening

ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Selamat Petang

Good Afternoon

លើកលែងរសៀល
Selamat tengah hari

Good Morning

អរុណ​ប្រចាំឡើង
Selamat pagi

Please

សូម
sila

Sorry

សូរី
maaf

Bye

លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Selamat tinggal

I Love You

បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Saya sayang kamu

Excuse Me

សូមទាញយក
Maafkan saya

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Khmer
Bengkulu

Where They Speak

Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra

How Many People Speak

1,400,000.001,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Khmer Krom
Pekal

Where They Speak

Vietnam
Indonesia

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.0030,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Western Khmer
Musi

Where They Speak

Cambodia, Thailand
Indonesia

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.003,100,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

624
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million175.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %1.16 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

13.00 million77.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million98.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Bahasa melayu

Alternative Names

Cambodian, Khmer
Bahasa Malaysia

French Name

khmer central
malais

German Name

Kambodschanisch
Malaiisch

Pronunciation

[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]

Ethnicity

Khmer, Northern Khmer
Malaysian people

History

Origin

14
c. 683 AD

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Austronesian Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Khmer
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,

Standard Forms

Modern Khmer
Pluricentric Standard Malay

Language Position

154
1 120
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Signed Forms

Khmer Sign Language
Malaysian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

km
ms

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

khm
msa

ISO 639 2/B

khm
may

ISO 639 3

khm
zsm

ISO 639 6

khm
may

Glottocode

khme1253
stan1306

Linguasphere

48-ACB
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Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative

Khmer and Malaysian Alphabets

Khmer and Malaysian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khmer and Malaysian. In Khmer Alphabets there are 53 letters while in Malaysian Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Khmer and Malaysian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khmer and Malaysian languages. The Khmer phonology consist Khmer vowels and Khmer consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Khmer greetings vs Malaysian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khmer and Malaysian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Khmer and Malaysian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Khmer and Malaysian dialects. Various dialects of Khmer and Malaysian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Khmer are spoken in different Khmer Speaking Countries whereas Malaysian Dialects are spoken in different Malaysian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Khmer vs Malaysian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Khmer dialects include: Northern Khmer, Khmer Krom. Malaysian dialects include: Bengkulu , Pekal. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Khmer and Malaysian Speaking population

Khmer and Malaysian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khmer and Malaysian languages can be compared. The total count of Khmer and Malaysian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Khmer and Malaysian on Khmer vs Malaysian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khmer and Malaysian Language Codes

Khmer and Malaysian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Khmer and Malaysian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.