Countries
Cambodia
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Lao Language
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5337
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
205
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3346
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Mhoro
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Manheru
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Masikati
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Mangwanani
Please
សូម
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
សូរី
Ndineurombo
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
bye
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Karanga
Where They Speak
Vietnam
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
khmer central
shona
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Shona people
Origin
14
20th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Shona
Language Position
1107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
sna
ISO 639 2/B
khm
sna
ISO 639 3
khm
sna
ISO 639 6
khm
sna
Glottocode
khme1253
core1255
Linguasphere
48-ACB
99-AUT-a
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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