Countries
Cambodia
Afganistan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
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
Pakistan
Regulated By
-
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Pashto language is originated in the regions of Paktika and Paktia areas of Afghanistan.
- The first Pashto poem was written in the 7th century.
Similar To
Lao Language
Persian and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5344
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
207
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3329
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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)
(salaam) سلام
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Please
សូម
(lotfan) لطفا
Sorry
សូរី
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Central Pashto
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.006,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Northern Pashto
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Wanetsi
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0095,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
621
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.58 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million50.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
(paṧto) پښتو
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
French Name
khmer central
pachto
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Paschtu
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Pashtun
Origin
14
1651
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Language Position
182
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Pashto Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
ps
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
pus
ISO 639 2/B
khm
pus
ISO 639 3
khm
pus
ISO 639 6
khm
pus
Glottocode
khme1253
pash1269
Linguasphere
48-ACB
58-ABD-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional