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Tibetan and Khmer


Countries

Countries
Cambodia  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

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
-  
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  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
53  
32
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
20  
17
5  
2

How Many Consonants
33  
23
30  
20

Scripts
Khmer  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ  
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
អរុណ​ប្រចាំឡើង  
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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Northern Khmer  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khmer Krom  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Vietnam  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Western Khmer  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand  
China  

How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00  
27
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
16.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.24 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
13.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
16.00 million  
33
6.00 million  
99+

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  

History

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
1  
1
29  
27

Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

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  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
-  

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All Khmer and Tibetan 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 Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Khmer and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Khmer are spoken in different Khmer Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Khmer vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Khmer dialects include: Northern Khmer, Khmer Krom. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Khmer and Tibetan Speaking population

Khmer and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khmer and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Khmer and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. 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 Tibetan on Khmer vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khmer and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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