Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
France
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
French-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
bonjour
  
ND
  
Thank You
Merci
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
ND
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
ND
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
ND
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
ND
  
Sorry
désolé
  
ND
  
Bye
au revoir
  
ND
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
African French
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
français
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
9th Century
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Modern Khmer
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating