Countries
Cambodia
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Lao Language
Munda Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
206
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3321
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Henda ho
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Adi Johar
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
संध्यायान
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Boge Setak’
Please
សូម
দয়া করে
Sorry
សូរី
দুঃখিত
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Hariau
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Mahali
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
India
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Not present
Where They Speak
Vietnam
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Not present
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
khmer central
santal
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
14
20th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Santali
Language Position
141
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
sat
ISO 639 2/B
khm
sat
ISO 639 3
khm
sat
ISO 639 6
khm
sat
Glottocode
khme1253
sant1410
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
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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