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Malaysian
Malaysian

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Countries

Countries

Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Cambodia

Total No. Of Countries

31
0 46
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National Language

Malaysia
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam

Second Language

Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Thailand
Australia, France, United States of America

Regulated By

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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Interesting Facts

  • One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
  • Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.

Similar To

Indonesian Language
Lao Language

Derived From

Tamil Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2653
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

620
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2433
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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Greetings

Hello

Hai
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)

Thank You

terima kasih
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)

How Are You?

Apa khabar?
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ

Good Night

Selamat Malam
រាត្រីលា

Good Evening

Selamat Petang
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ

Good Afternoon

Selamat tengah hari
លើកលែងរសៀល

Good Morning

Selamat pagi
អរុណ​ប្រចាំឡើង

Please

sila
សូម

Sorry

maaf
សូរី

Bye

Selamat tinggal
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)

I Love You

Saya sayang kamu
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន

Excuse Me

Maafkan saya
សូមទាញយក

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bengkulu
Northern Khmer

Where They Speak

Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America

How Many People Speak

1,600,000.001,400,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Pekal
Khmer Krom

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Vietnam

How Many People Speak

30,000.001,200,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Musi
Western Khmer

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Cambodia, Thailand

How Many People Speak

3,100,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

246
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

175.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.16 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

77.00 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

98.00 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Bahasa melayu
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)

Alternative Names

Bahasa Malaysia
Cambodian, Khmer

French Name

malais
khmer central

German Name

Malaiisch
Kambodschanisch

Pronunciation

[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]

Ethnicity

Malaysian people
Khmer, Northern Khmer

History

Origin

c. 683 AD
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Language Family

Austronesian Family
Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Proto-Khmer

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Malay
Modern Khmer

Language Position

541
1 120
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Signed Forms

Malaysian Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ms
km

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

msa
khm

ISO 639 2/B

may
khm

ISO 639 3

zsm
khm

ISO 639 6

may
khm

Glottocode

stan1306
khme1253

Linguasphere

No data available
48-ACB

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating

Malaysian and Khmer Alphabets

Malaysian and Khmer Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malaysian and Khmer. In Malaysian Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Khmer Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Malaysian and Khmer languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malaysian and Khmer languages. The Malaysian phonology consist Malaysian vowels and Malaysian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Malaysian greetings vs Khmer greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malaysian and Khmer are Most Spoken Languages.

All Malaysian and Khmer Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Malaysian and Khmer dialects. Various dialects of Malaysian and Khmer language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Malaysian are spoken in different Malaysian Speaking Countries whereas Khmer Dialects are spoken in different Khmer speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Malaysian vs Khmer Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Malaysian dialects include: Bengkulu, Pekal. Khmer dialects include: Northern Khmer , Khmer Krom. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Malaysian and Khmer Speaking population

Malaysian and Khmer speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malaysian and Khmer languages can be compared. The total count of Malaysian and Khmer Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Malaysian and Khmer on Malaysian vs Khmer where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malaysian and Khmer Language Codes

Malaysian and Khmer language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Malaysian and Khmer Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.