Countries
Cambodia
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
India, Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
- Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
Similar To
Lao Language
Hindi Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
209
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3341
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
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 weeks6 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
Please
សូម
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
Sorry
សូរី
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Pothohari
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Pakistan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Saraiki
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0020,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Doabi
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Pakistan, Punjab, India
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00130,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
630
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million154.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %1.44 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million100.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million54.30 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
French Name
khmer central
pendjabi
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Pandschabi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Not Availble
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Punjabis
Origin
14
1000 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Modern Punjabi
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
km
pa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
pan
ISO 639 2/B
khm
pan
ISO 639 3
khm
pan
ISO 639 6
khm
panj
Glottocode
khme1253
panj1256
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional