Countries
Cambodia
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
India
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
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Lao Language
Old German Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Prakrit 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 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
សូម
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
សូរី
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Not present
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
-
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Not present
Where They Speak
Vietnam
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Not present
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
60
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million14.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million-
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
khmer central
sanskrit
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
14
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Sanskrit
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
-
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
san
ISO 639 2/B
khm
san
ISO 639 3
khm
san
ISO 639 6
khm
san
Glottocode
khme1253
sans1269
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic