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Countries
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Countries
Cambodia 0

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam 0

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Speaking Continents
Asia 0

Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America 0

Regulated By
Not Available 0

Interesting Facts
  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
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Similar To
Lao Language 0

Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
53 32

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
20 17

How Many Consonants
33 23

Scripts
Khmer 0

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal 0

Hard to Learn
0

Language Levels
4 3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings
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Hello
ND 0

Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak) 0

How Are You?
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ 0

Good Night
ND 0

Good Evening
ND 0

Good Afternoon
ND 0

Good Morning
ND 0

Please
ND 0

Sorry
ND 0

Bye
ND 0

I Love You
ND 0

Excuse Me
ND 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Northern Khmer 0

Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America 0

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00 26

Dialect 2
Khmer Krom 0

Where They Speak
Vietnam 0

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00 24

Dialect 3
Western Khmer 0

Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
6 6

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million 45

Speaking Population
0.24 % 42

Native Speakers
13.00 million 43

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r) 0

Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer 0

French Name
khmer central 0

German Name
Kambodschanisch 0

Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe] 0

Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer 0

History
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Origin
14 0

Language Family
Austroasiatic Family 0

Subgroup
Not Available 0

Branch
Not Available 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
Proto-Khmer 0

Standard Forms
Modern Khmer 0

Language Position
Not Available 0

Signed Forms
Not Available 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
km 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
khm 0

ISO 639 2/B
khm 0

ISO 639 3
khm 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
khme1253 0

Linguasphere
Not Available 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object 0

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating 0

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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.

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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.

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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.

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