Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Khmer
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
ND
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
晚安
  
ND
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
ND
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
ND
  
Please
请
  
ND
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
ND
  
Bye
再见
  
ND
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
Not Available
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
17th century
  
14
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Modern Khmer
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Cantonese and Khmer Speaking population
Cantonese and Khmer speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Khmer languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Khmer Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Cantonese and Khmer on Cantonese vs Khmer where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Khmer Language Codes
Cantonese and Khmer language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Khmer Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.