Countries
Cambodia
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
India
Regulated By
-
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Lao Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5395
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
205
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3330
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
សូម
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
សូរី
Tsip maza
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Laya
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Lunana
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Adap
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
khmer central
dzongkha
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Ngalop people
Origin
14
17th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Dzongkha
Language Position
131
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
khm
dzo
ISO 639 3
khm
dzo
ISO 639 6
khm
dzo
Glottocode
khme1253
nucl1307
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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