Countries
Cambodia
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Mon
Regulated By
-
Myanmar Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Lao Language
Thai Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2012
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3333
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Tangut
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)
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
សូម
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
សូរី
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Intha
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Burma
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
65
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
khmer central
birman
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Bamar people
Origin
14
1113 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Modern Burmese
Language Position
143
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
mya
ISO 639 2/B
khm
bur
ISO 639 3
khm
mya
ISO 639 6
khm
mya
Glottocode
khme1253
sout3159
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating