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
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
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
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Sudan
Vietnam
Dialect 3
Levantine
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
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
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Not Available
Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
khme1253
Linguasphere
12-AAC
Not Available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Arabic 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 Arabic and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Khmer language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Khmer Difficulty
The Arabic vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic 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 Arabic and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.