Countries
Cambodia
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
China, Mongolia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Lao Language
Turkish Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2013
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3320
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
សូម
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
សូរី
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
68
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
khmer central
mongol
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Mongols
Origin
14
1224-1225
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
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Mongolian
Branch
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-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
126
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
km
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
mon
ISO 639 2/B
khm
mon
ISO 639 3
khm
mon
ISO 639 6
khm
mon
Glottocode
khme1253
mong1331
Linguasphere
48-ACB
part of 44-BAA-b
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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