Countries
Cambodia
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Lao Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5354
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2018
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3336
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
សូម
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
សូរី
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Vedda
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Vietnam
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
khmer central
singhalais
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Sinhalese people
Origin
14
3
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
170
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
sin
ISO 639 2/B
khm
sin
ISO 639 3
khm
sin
ISO 639 6
khm
sin
Glottocode
khme1253
sinh1246
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional