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Sanskrit

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Countries

Countries

India
Cambodia

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

India
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

  • Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
  • Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.

Similar To

Old German Language
Lao Language

Derived From

Prakrit Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5253
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1620
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3633
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Khmer

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

20 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)

Thank You

धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)

How Are You?

कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ

Good Night

शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
រាត្រីលា

Good Evening

शुभः सायंकालः
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ

Good Afternoon

शुभ दुपार
លើកលែងរសៀល

Good Morning

सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
អរុណ​ប្រចាំឡើង

Please

कृपया (kripayā)
សូម

Sorry

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
សូរី

Bye

पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)

I Love You

त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន

Excuse Me

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
សូមទាញយក

Dialects

Dialect 1

Not present
Northern Khmer

Where They Speak

-
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America

How Many People Speak

140,000.001,400,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Not present
Khmer Krom

Where They Speak

-
Vietnam

How Many People Speak

140,000.001,200,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Western Khmer

Where They Speak

-
Cambodia, Thailand

How Many People Speak

140,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

06
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

14.10 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

14.10 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

-16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)

Alternative Names

Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Cambodian, Khmer

French Name

sanskrit
khmer central

German Name

Sanskrit
Kambodschanisch

Pronunciation

[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]

Ethnicity

Sanskrit speakers
Khmer, Northern Khmer

History

Origin

2000 B.C.
14

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
-

Branch

Indic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Vedic Sanskrit
Proto-Khmer

Standard Forms

Sanskrit
Modern Khmer

Language Position

231
1 120
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Signed Forms

-
Khmer Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sa
km

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

san
khm

ISO 639 2/B

san
khm

ISO 639 3

san
khm

ISO 639 6

san
khm

Glottocode

sans1269
khme1253

Linguasphere

No data available
48-ACB

Types of Language

Language Type

Ancient
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating

Sanskrit and Khmer Alphabets

Sanskrit and Khmer Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sanskrit and Khmer. In Sanskrit Alphabets there are 52 letters while in Khmer Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Sanskrit and Khmer languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sanskrit and Khmer languages. The Sanskrit phonology consist Sanskrit vowels and Sanskrit consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sanskrit greetings vs Khmer greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sanskrit and Khmer are Most Spoken Languages.

All Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit and Khmer dialects. Various dialects of Sanskrit and Khmer language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sanskrit are spoken in different Sanskrit Speaking Countries whereas Khmer Dialects are spoken in different Khmer speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sanskrit vs Khmer Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Khmer dialects include: Northern Khmer , Khmer Krom. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Sanskrit and Khmer Speaking population

Sanskrit and Khmer speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sanskrit and Khmer languages can be compared. The total count of Sanskrit and Khmer Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is 0.01 % 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 Sanskrit and Khmer on Sanskrit vs Khmer where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sanskrit and Khmer Language Codes

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