Countries
Burkina Faso
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Dagbani Language
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2653
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
820
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1633
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Khmer
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kia ora
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
Laafi bala
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
Ne y yungo
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
ne y zabre
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
gafare
សូម
Sorry
gafare
សូរី
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
Y gafare
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saremde
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Taolende
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
86
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.60 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.60 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Mosse
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
moré
khmer central
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Mossi
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
11th Century AD
14
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Mossi
Modern Khmer
Language Position
371
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
khm
ISO 639 2/B
mos
khm
ISO 639 3
mos
khm
ISO 639 6
mos
khm
Glottocode
moss1236
khme1253
Linguasphere
No data Available
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating