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Swahili
Swahili

Khmer
Khmer



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Countries

Countries

African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Cambodia

Total No. Of Countries

41
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
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

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.

Similar To

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Lao Language

Derived From

Arabic Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2453
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

520
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2133
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Khmer

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Habari
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)

Thank You

Asante
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)

How Are You?

Habari gani?
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ

Good Night

Usiku mwema
រាត្រីលា

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
លើកលែងរសៀល

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
អរុណ​ប្រចាំឡើង

Please

tafadhali
សូម

Sorry

pole
សូរី

Bye

bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)

I Love You

nakupenda
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន

Excuse Me

Samahani
សូមទាញយក

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Northern Khmer

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kimrima
Khmer Krom

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
Vietnam

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.001,200,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Western Khmer

Where They Speak

Kilwa
Cambodia, Thailand

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

126
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Cambodian, Khmer

French Name

swahili
khmer central

German Name

Swahili
Kambodschanisch

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Khmer, Northern Khmer

History

Origin

6th century
14

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
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Branch

Bantu
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Khmer

Standard Forms

Swahili
Modern Khmer

Language Position

211
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
km

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
khm

ISO 639 2/B

swa
khm

ISO 639 3

swa
khm

ISO 639 6

swa
khm

Glottocode

swah1254
khme1253

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
48-ACB

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Analytic, Isolating

Swahili and Khmer Alphabets

Swahili and Khmer Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Khmer. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Khmer Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Swahili and Khmer languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Khmer languages. The Swahili phonology consist Swahili vowels and Swahili consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Swahili greetings vs Khmer greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Khmer are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Khmer Speaking population

Swahili and Khmer speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Khmer languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Khmer Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % 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 Swahili and Khmer on Swahili vs Khmer where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Khmer Language Codes

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