Countries
Cambodia
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Israel, Mauritius
Regulated By
-
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
Similar To
Lao Language
Konkani Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5352
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2016
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3336
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
Please
សូម
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
សូរី
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
बाय (Bāya)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Maharashtrian Konkani
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Kokan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.002,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Varhadi
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Vidarbha
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Khandeshi
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Khandesh
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
642
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million71.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %1.10 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million68.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
मराठी (marāṭhī)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
French Name
khmer central
marathe
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Marathi
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Marathi people
Origin
14
10th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Maharashtri Prakrit
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Marathi
Language Position
117
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
mr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
mar
ISO 639 2/B
khm
mar
ISO 639 3
khm
mar
ISO 639 6
khm
mar
Glottocode
khme1253
mara1378
Linguasphere
48-ACB
omr
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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