Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Khmer
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
ND
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
ND
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
ND
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
ND
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
ND
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
ND
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
ND
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
bulgare
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
9th Century
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Modern Khmer
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Khmer language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bulgarian vs Khmer Difficulty
The Bulgarian vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.