Countries
Cambodia
Wales
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Wales
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Argentina, United Kingdom
Regulated By
-
Welsh Language Commissioner
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
Similar To
Lao Language
English Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
British Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
207
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3321
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)
Helô
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Diolch
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Sut ydych chi?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Nos da
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Noswaith dda
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
P'nawn da
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Bore da
Please
សូម
os gwelwch yn dda
Sorry
សូរី
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Hwyl
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Dw i'n dy garu di
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Esgusodwch fi
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Patagonian Welsh
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Argentina
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0038,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Y Wyndodeg
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Gwynedd
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Y Bowyseg
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Powys
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00700,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
68
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million7.40 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Cymraeg
French Name
khmer central
gallois
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Kymrisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Welsh people
Origin
14
9th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Celtic
Branch
-
Brythonic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Welsh
Language Position
131
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Welsh Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
km
cy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
cym
ISO 639 2/B
khm
wel
ISO 639 3
khm
cym
ISO 639 6
khm
cym
Glottocode
khme1253
wels1247
Linguasphere
48-ACB
50-ABA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional