Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
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
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-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
Tere
  
ND
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
ND
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
ND
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
ND
  
Please
Palun
  
ND
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
ND
  
Bye
Head aega
  
ND
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
eesti keel
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
estonien
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
13th century
  
14
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Modern Khmer
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Estonian 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 Estonian and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Khmer language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Khmer Difficulty
The Estonian vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian 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 Estonian and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.