Countries
South Africa
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Dutch Language
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Dutch Language
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Khmer
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
ND
  
Thank You
Dankie
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
goeie nag
  
ND
  
Good Evening
Goeienaand
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
  
ND
  
Good Morning
goeie more
  
ND
  
Please
asseblief
  
ND
  
Sorry
jammer
  
ND
  
Bye
Not Available
  
ND
  
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Namibia
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.10 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
  
22
Not Available
  
Native Name
Afrikaans
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
afrikaans
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Afrikaans
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
17th Century
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
  
Modern Khmer
  
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
af
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
afr
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
afr
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
afr
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
afrs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
afri1274
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Afrikaans and Khmer Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Afrikaans and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Khmer language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Khmer Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Khmer Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Afrikaans and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.