Countries
Cambodia
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Lao Language
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5344
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2012
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3332
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
sannu
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
gode ku
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
yaya dai
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
barka da rana
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
mai kyau safe
Please
សូម
Don Allah
Sorry
សូរី
yi hakuri
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
sai anjima
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Ghana
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Niger
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Niger
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0050.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
620
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.52 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million35.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
khmer central
haoussa
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
14
14
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Chadic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Hausa
Language Position
134
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
hau
ISO 639 2/B
khm
hau
ISO 639 3
khm
hau
ISO 639 6
khm
hau
Glottocode
khme1253
haus1257
Linguasphere
48-ACB
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional