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Tibetan and Khmer


Khmer and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Cambodia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
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
China, India, Nepal  
Australia, France, United States of America  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
-  

Interesting Facts
  • Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
  • Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  
  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Lao Language  

Derived From
-  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
53  
32

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
20  
17

How Many Consonants
30  
20
33  
23

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Khmer  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
រាត្រីលា  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
លើកលែងរសៀល  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
អរុណ​ប្រចាំឡើង  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
សូម  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
សូរី  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
សូមទាញយក  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Northern Khmer  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Khmer Krom  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Vietnam  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Western Khmer  

Where They Speak
China  
Cambodia, Thailand  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
16,000,000.00  
27

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
16.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.24 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
13.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
16.00 million  
33

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Cambodian, Khmer  

French Name
tibétain  
khmer central  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Kambodschanisch  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Khmer, Northern Khmer  

History

Origin
c. 650  
14  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Austroasiatic Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
-  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Proto-Khmer  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Modern Khmer  

Language Position
29  
27
1  
1

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Khmer Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
km  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
khm  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
khm  

ISO 639 3
bod  
khm  

ISO 639 6
bod  
khm  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
khme1253  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
48-ACB  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Analytic, Isolating  

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

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Tibetan and Khmer Speaking population

Tibetan and Khmer speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Khmer languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Khmer Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % 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 Tibetan and Khmer on Tibetan vs Khmer where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Khmer Language Codes

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

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