Countries
Cambodia
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
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Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Lao Language
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5347
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
208
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3322
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Devanagari
Writing Direction
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)
pranam
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Śubharātri
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Suprabhaat
Please
សូម
kripaya
Sorry
សូរី
maf karai
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Alavidā
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
kripaya
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Vietnam
North India
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Khortha
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
615
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
khmer central
maithili
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Maithil
Origin
14
14th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Maithili
Language Position
140
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
mai
ISO 639 2/B
khm
mai
ISO 639 3
khm
mai
ISO 639 6
khm
mai
Glottocode
khme1253
mait1250
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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