Countries
Cambodia
Haiti
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Haiti
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Central America, North America
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Cuba
Regulated By
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Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
Similar To
Lao Language
French Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5329
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
207
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3320
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Bonjou
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Mèsi
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Kijan ou yé?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Bon nwit
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Bonswa
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Bon apre-midi
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Bon apre-midi
Please
សូម
Souple
Sorry
សូរី
Dezole
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Babay
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Mwen renmen w
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Eskize m
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Northern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Cap-Haitien
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Central Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Port-au-Prince
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Southern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Cayes
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0012,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million9.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.15 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million9.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Kreyòl ayisyen
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
French Name
khmer central
haïtien; créole haïtien
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[kɣejɔl]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Haitians
Origin
14
17th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Haitian Creole
Language Position
199
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Langue des Signes Haïtienne (LSH)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
ht
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
hat
ISO 639 2/B
khm
hat
ISO 639 3
khm
hat
ISO 639 6
khm
hat
Glottocode
khme1253
hait1244
Linguasphere
48-ACB
51-AAC-cb
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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