Countries
Cambodia
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
-
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Lao Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5330
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 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Ħello
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Grazzi
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Kif int?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
សូម
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
សូរី
Skużani!
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Ċaw
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Qormi
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Malta
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Malta
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Not Present
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
62
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Malti
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Malti
French Name
khmer central
maltais
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Maltese
Origin
14
c. 1470
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Maltese
Language Position
125
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
khm
mlt
ISO 639 3
khm
mlt
ISO 639 6
khm
mlt
Glottocode
khme1253
malt1254
Linguasphere
48-ACB
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic