Countries
Cambodia
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Yemen
Regulated By
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National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Lao Language
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
205
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3321
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Hello
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Subax wanaagsan
Please
សូម
Fadlan
Sorry
សូរី
sorry
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
caraysiiyo
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
khmer central
somali
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Somalis
Origin
14
19th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Somali
Language Position
183
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
som
ISO 639 2/B
khm
som
ISO 639 3
khm
som
ISO 639 6
khm
som
Glottocode
khme1253
soma1255
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
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