Countries
Cambodia
China, Nepal
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
Not Available
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
Not Available
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Khmer
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
ND
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
ND
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
ND
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
ND
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
ND
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
ND
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
ND
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
ND
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
ND
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
ND
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
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
tibetan people
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
khme1253
tibe1272
Linguasphere
Not Available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available
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.
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 Not Available. 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.