Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Cambodia
National Language
Russia
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
ND
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
ND
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
ND
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
ND
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
ND
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
ND
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
ND
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
ND
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
ND
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
ND
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Dialect 2
Olonets
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Olonets
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Cambodia, Thailand
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Russki
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
russe
khmer central
German Name
Russisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Russians
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Modern Khmer
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
khme1253
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
Not Available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Russian 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 Russian and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Khmer language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Khmer Difficulty
The Russian vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian 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 Russian and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.