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 in
Alphabets
5326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
206
0
32
👆🏻
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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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Hai
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
terima kasih
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Apa khabar?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
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
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
624
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
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
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
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
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative