Countries
Burma
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2153
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
520
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1933
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Khmer
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Bwakeye
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
Urakoze
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
Ndagusavye
សូម
Sorry
Ndasubiza
សូរី
Bye
N’agasaga
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ha
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
990,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
153,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.80 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
íkiRǔndi
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
rundi
khmer central
German Name
Kirundi
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
1500
14
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Modern Khmer
Language Position
861
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
khm
ISO 639 2/B
run
khm
ISO 639 3
run
khm
ISO 639 6
run
khm
Glottocode
rund1242
khme1253
Linguasphere
No data available
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating