Countries
Cambodia
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Pan South African Language Board
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Lao Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5357
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
207
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3350
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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)
Sawubona
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
unjani
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
okuhle ekuseni
Please
សូម
Ngiyacela
Sorry
សូរី
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
bye
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million12.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
khmer central
zoulou
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Zulu people
Origin
14
19
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Deep Zulu
Language Position
187
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
zul
ISO 639 2/B
khm
zul
ISO 639 3
khm
zul
ISO 639 6
khm
zul
Glottocode
khme1253
zulu1248
Linguasphere
48-ACB
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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