Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-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
Moi
  
ND
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
ND
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
ND
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
ND
  
Please
haluta
  
ND
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
ND
  
Bye
Heippa
  
ND
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
finnois
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
1543
  
14
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Modern Khmer
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
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, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Finnish 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 Finnish and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Khmer language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Khmer Difficulty
The Finnish vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish 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 Finnish and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.