Countries
Cambodia
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Palau
Regulated By
-
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Lao Language
Korean Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5399
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
205
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3314
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
សូម
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
សូរី
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Hakata
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Kansai
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
kansai
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
631
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
日本語
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Nihongo
French Name
khmer central
japonais
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
14
1185
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Japanese
Language Position
18
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
khm
jpn
ISO 639 3
khm
jpn
ISO 639 6
khm
jpn
Glottocode
khme1253
nucl1643
Linguasphere
48-ACB
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic