Countries
Cambodia
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Lao Language
Armenian
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5324
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
207
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3317
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
សូម
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
សូរី
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Greece
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Griko
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Italy
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
625
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
khmer central
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
14
1500 BC
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Modern Greek
Language Position
174
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
ell
ISO 639 2/B
khm
gre
ISO 639 3
khm
ell
ISO 639 6
khm
ells
Glottocode
khme1253
gree1276
Linguasphere
48-ACB
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic