Countries
European Union, Malta
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
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Interesting Facts
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Lao Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3053
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
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
Grazzi
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Kif int?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
សូម
Sorry
Skużani!
សូរី
Bye
Ċaw
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
Skużi!
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Qormi
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Malta
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
520,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Malta
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
-
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
500,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
26
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Malti
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
maltais
khmer central
German Name
Maltesisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
c. 1470
14
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Maltese
Modern Khmer
Language Position
251
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
khm
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
khm
ISO 639 3
mlt
khm
ISO 639 6
mlt
khm
Glottocode
malt1254
khme1253
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating