Countries
Cambodia
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Central Hindi Directorate
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Lao Language
Urdu
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5344
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2011
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3333
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
សូម
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
សូរី
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Marwari
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
621
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
khmer central
hindi
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Hindi
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Hindustani people
Origin
14
7th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Hindi
Language Position
15
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
hin
ISO 639 2/B
khm
hin
ISO 639 3
khm
hin
ISO 639 6
khm
hins
Glottocode
khme1253
hind1269
Linguasphere
48-ACB
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic