Countries
Zimbabwe
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3753
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
520
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4633
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Khmer
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Mhoro
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
Waita zvako
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
Manheru
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
Masikati
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
Mangwanani
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
សូម
Sorry
Ndineurombo
សូរី
Bye
bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
Ndinokuda
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
16.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
shona
khmer central
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
20th century
14
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Modern Khmer
Language Position
1071
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
khm
ISO 639 2/B
sna
khm
ISO 639 3
sna
khm
ISO 639 6
sna
khm
Glottocode
core1255
khme1253
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating