Countries
Cambodia
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
16
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Lao Language
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5331
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
207
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3320
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
alo
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
multumesc
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
ce mai faci?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
noapte Buna
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
buna Ziua
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
bună Dimineața
Please
សូម
Vă Rog
Sorry
សូរី
scuze
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
La revedere
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Scuza-Ma
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Aromanian
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Croatia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
610
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Română
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
khmer central
roumain; moldave
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Romanians
Origin
14
1521
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Romanian
Language Position
136
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
ron
ISO 639 2/B
khm
rum
ISO 639 3
khm
ron
ISO 639 6
khm
ron
Glottocode
khme1253
roma1327
Linguasphere
48-ACB
51-AAD-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic