Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
Austria
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-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
bok
  
ND
  
Thank You
hvala
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
ND
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
ND
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
ND
  
Please
molim
  
ND
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
ND
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
ND
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
croate
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
9th century
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Modern Khmer
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Croatian 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 Croatian and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Khmer language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Khmer Difficulty
The Croatian vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian 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 Croatian and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.