Countries
Cambodia
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Lao Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
205
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3330
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
សូម
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
សូរី
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
China
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
khmer central
tibétain
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
tibetan people
Origin
14
c. 650
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
km
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
bod
ISO 639 2/B
khm
tib
ISO 639 3
khm
bod
ISO 639 6
khm
bod
Glottocode
khme1253
tibe1272
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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