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Khmer
Khmer

Swahili
Swahili



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Countries

Countries

Cambodia
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

14
0 46
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National Language

Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa

Minority Language

Australia, France, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

Interesting Facts

  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Lao Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5324
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

205
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3321
9 60
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Scripts

Khmer
Latin

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 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Habari

Thank You

សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Asante

How Are You?

អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ
Habari gani?

Good Night

រាត្រីលា
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

លើកលែងរសៀល
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

អរុណ​ប្រចាំឡើង
Habari za asubuhi

Please

សូម
tafadhali

Sorry

សូរី
pole

Bye

លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
bye

I Love You

បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
nakupenda

Excuse Me

សូមទាញយក
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Khmer
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

1,400,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Khmer Krom
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Vietnam
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Western Khmer
Kimgao

Where They Speak

Cambodia, Thailand
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

612
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

13.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Cambodian, Khmer
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

khmer central
swahili

German Name

Kambodschanisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Khmer, Northern Khmer
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

14
6th century

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

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Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Khmer
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Khmer
Swahili

Language Position

121
1 120
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Signed Forms

Khmer Sign Language
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

km
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

khm
swa

ISO 639 2/B

khm
swa

ISO 639 3

khm
swa

ISO 639 6

khm
swa

Glottocode

khme1253
swah1254

Linguasphere

48-ACB
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
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Khmer and Swahili Alphabets

Khmer and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khmer and Swahili. In Khmer Alphabets there are 53 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Khmer and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khmer and Swahili languages. The Khmer phonology consist Khmer vowels and Khmer consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Khmer greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khmer and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Khmer and Swahili Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Khmer and Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Khmer and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Khmer are spoken in different Khmer Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Khmer vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Khmer dialects include: Northern Khmer, Khmer Krom. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Khmer and Swahili Speaking population

Khmer and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khmer and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Khmer and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Khmer and Swahili on Khmer vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khmer and Swahili Language Codes

Khmer and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Khmer and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.