Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Khmer
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
ND
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
ND
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
ND
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
ND
  
Please
من فضلك
  
ND
  
Sorry
آسف
  
ND
  
Bye
وداعا
  
ND
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
arabe
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
512 CE
  
14
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Modern Khmer
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating