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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Cambodia

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Australia, France, United States of America

1.7 Regulated By

Not Available

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.

1.9 Similar To

Lao Language

1.10 Derived From

Pali and Sanskrit Languages

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

53
Rank: 32 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

20
Rank: 17 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

33
Rank: 23 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Khmer

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

ND

3.2 Thank You

សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)

3.3 How Are You?

អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ

3.4 Good Night

ND

3.5 Good Evening

ND

3.6 Good Afternoon

ND

3.7 Good Morning

ND

3.8 Please

ND

3.9 Sorry

ND

3.10 Bye

ND

3.11 I Love You

ND

3.12 Excuse Me

ND

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Northern Khmer

4.1.1 Where They Speak

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

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

1,400,000.00
Rank: 26 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Khmer Krom

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Vietnam

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00
Rank: 24 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Western Khmer

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Cambodia, Thailand

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.24 %
Rank: 42 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

13.00 million
Rank: 43 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Cambodian, Khmer

5.3.4 French Name

khmer central

5.3.5 German Name

Kambodschanisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]

5.5 Ethnicity

Khmer, Northern Khmer

6 History

6.1 Origin

14

6.2 Language Family

Austroasiatic Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Proto-Khmer

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Modern Khmer

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

km

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

khm

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

khm

7.3 ISO 639 3

khm

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

khme1253

7.6 Linguasphere

Not Available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating

Know Alphabets in Khmer

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Khmer Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Khmer Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Khmer. Khmer phonology gives Khmer vowels and Khmer consonants. There are 20 vowels and 33 consonants in Khmer language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Khmer is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Khmer language is given in detail in this section.

All Khmer countries

Want to explore all Khmer countries? About Khmer language serves you with all Khmer Speaking Countries. Countries that use Khmer as official language are called as Khmer countries.

  • Countries that use Khmer as their National Language are: Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Khmer as second language are: Khmer is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Khmer greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Khmer Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Khmer language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Khmer language.Learn Khmer greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: ND
  • Thank you: សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  • Good Morning: ND
  • Good Evening: ND
  • Good Afternoon: ND

All Khmer Language Codes

Get to know all Khmer language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Khmer Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.