Countries
Cambodia
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Czech Republic
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
Similar To
Lao Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Chinese Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5337
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2012
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
-
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)
Xin chào
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Cam on
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Bạn khỏe không?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Chúc ngủ ngon
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Chào buổi tối
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Chào buổi trưa
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Chào buổi sáng
Please
សូម
xin vui lòng
Sorry
សូរី
Xin lỗi
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Tạm biệt
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
tôi yêu bạn
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Xin loi
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Northern Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
North-central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0076,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0076,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
65
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million91.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million75.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
khmer central
vietnamien
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Vietnamesisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Origin
14
c. 1440
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Vietnamese
Language Position
114
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
vi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
vie
ISO 639 2/B
khm
vie
ISO 639 3
khm
vie
ISO 639 6
khm
vie
Glottocode
khme1253
viet1252
Linguasphere
48-ACB
46-EBA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating