Countries
China, Mongolia
Cambodia
National Language
China, Mongolia
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Lao Language
Derived From
Not Available
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Khmer
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
ND
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
ND
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
ND
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
ND
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
ND
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
ND
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
ND
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
ND
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
ND
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Vietnam
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Cambodia, Thailand
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Not Available
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
mongol
khmer central
German Name
Mongolisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Language Family
Mongolic family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Modern Khmer
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mong1331
khme1253
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
Not Available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating
Mongolian and Khmer Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Mongolian and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Khmer language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Khmer Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and Khmer Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Mongolian and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.