Countries
South Africa
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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
Pan South African Language Board
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Interesting Facts
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Xhosa Language
Lao Language
Derived From
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Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5753
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
720
0
32
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How Many Consonants
5033
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
Sawubona
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
unjani
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
Ngiyacela
សូម
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
សូរី
Bye
bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
Uxolo
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ndebele
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.16 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
zoulou
khmer central
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
19
14
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
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Branch
Beatu
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Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Modern Khmer
Language Position
871
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
khm
ISO 639 2/B
zul
khm
ISO 639 3
zul
khm
ISO 639 6
zul
khm
Glottocode
zulu1248
khme1253
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
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