Countries
Cambodia
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
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Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Lao Language
Macedonian language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
206
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3336
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
សូម
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
សូរី
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
658
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Balgarski
French Name
khmer central
bulgare
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Bulgarian people
Origin
14
9th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
188
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
bul
ISO 639 2/B
khm
bul
ISO 639 3
khm
bul
ISO 639 6
khm
buls
Glottocode
khme1253
bulg1262
Linguasphere
48-ACB
53-AAA-hb
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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