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Countries

Countries

Thailand
Cambodia

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Thailand
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

Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Australia, France, United States of America

Regulated By

Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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Interesting Facts

  • Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
  • You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.

Similar To

Lao Language
Lao Language

Derived From

Khmer Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4453
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

3220
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4433
9 60
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Scripts

Thai
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

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)

Thank You

ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)

How Are You?

คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ

Good Night

นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
រាត្រីលា

Good Evening

สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ

Good Afternoon

สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
លើកលែងរសៀល

Good Morning

อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
អរុណ​ប្រចាំឡើង

Please

โปรด (Pord)
សូម

Sorry

ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
សូរី

Bye

ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)

I Love You

ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន

Excuse Me

ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
សូមទាញយក

Dialects

Dialect 1

Isan
Northern Khmer

Where They Speak

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

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Northern Thai
Khmer Krom

Where They Speak

Northern Thailand
Vietnam

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.001,200,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Southern Thai
Western Khmer

Where They Speak

Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
Cambodia, Thailand

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

96
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.85 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

20.00 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

40.00 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ภาษาไทย
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)

Alternative Names

Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Cambodian, Khmer

French Name

thaï
khmer central

German Name

Thailändisch
Kambodschanisch

Pronunciation

[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]

Ethnicity

Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Khmer, Northern Khmer

History

Origin

1283 CE
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Language Family

Tai-Kadai Family
Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup

Tai
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Branch

-
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Thai
Proto-Khmer

Standard Forms

Thai
Modern Khmer

Language Position

471
1 120
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Signed Forms

Thai Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

th
km

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

tha
khm

ISO 639 2/B

tha
khm

ISO 639 3

tha
khm

ISO 639 6

tha
khm

Glottocode

thai1261
khme1253

Linguasphere

47-AAA-b
48-ACB

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating

Thai and Khmer Alphabets

Thai and Khmer Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Thai and Khmer. In Thai Alphabets there are 44 letters while in Khmer Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Thai and Khmer languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Thai and Khmer languages. The Thai phonology consist Thai vowels and Thai consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Thai greetings vs Khmer greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Thai and Khmer are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Thai and Khmer Speaking population

Thai and Khmer speaking population is one of the factors based on which Thai and Khmer languages can be compared. The total count of Thai and Khmer Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Thai language is 0.85 % 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 Thai and Khmer on Thai vs Khmer where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Thai and Khmer Language Codes

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