Countries
Cambodia
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Nynorsk
Regulated By
-
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Lao Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
209
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3320
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
hallo
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
takk
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
god natt
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
god kveld
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
god morgen
Please
សូម
Vær så snill
Sorry
សូរី
unnskyld
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
ha det
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Sogn
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
619
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million5.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Norsk
French Name
khmer central
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Norwegians
Origin
14
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
118
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
km
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
nor
ISO 639 2/B
khm
nor
ISO 639 3
khm
nor
ISO 639 6
khm
nor
Glottocode
khme1253
norw1258
Linguasphere
48-ACB
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional