Countries
Cambodia
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Filipinos
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Australia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Regulated By
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Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- In 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
Similar To
Lao Language
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5325
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
205
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3318
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Baybayin
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Kamusta
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Salamat po
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Kamusta ka na?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Magandang gabi
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Magandang gabi po
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Magandang hapon po
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Magandang umaga po
Please
សូម
pakiusap
Sorry
សូរី
pinagsisisihan
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Paálam
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Iniibig kita
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Batangas Tagalog
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Batangas, Gabon
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Bisalog
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Philippines
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Filipino
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Philippines
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million73.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.42 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Tagalog
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Filipino, Pilipino
French Name
khmer central
tagalog
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Tagalog
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Tagalog people
Origin
14
1593
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Filipino
Language Position
158
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Signed Tagalog
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
t1
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
tgl
ISO 639 2/B
khm
tgl
ISO 639 3
khm
tg1
ISO 639 6
khm
tgl
Glottocode
khme1253
taga1269
Linguasphere
48-ACB
31-CKA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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