Countries
South Africa
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Lao Language
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1020
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4333
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Khmer
Writing Direction
-
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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Hello
Molo
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Unjani
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
Molo
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
Ndicela
សូម
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
សូរី
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
Uxolo
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
South Africa
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
South Africa
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
South Africa
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
19.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
96
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.20 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiXhosa
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
xhosa
khmer central
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
16th Century
14
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Modern Khmer
Language Position
211
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
khm
ISO 639 2/B
xho
khm
ISO 639 3
xho
khm
ISO 639 6
xho
khm
Glottocode
xhos1239
khme1253
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating