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Khmer vs German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Cambodia  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
1  
14

National Language
Germany  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam  

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Australia, France, United States of America  

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
Not Available  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  

Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Lao Language  

Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
53  
32

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
20  
17

How Many Consonants
9  
1
33  
23

Scripts
Latin  
Khmer  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
ND  

Thank You
Danke  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)  

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ  

Good Night
gute Nacht  
ND  

Good Evening
guten Abend  
ND  

Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
ND  

Good Morning
guten Morgen  
ND  

Please
bitte  
ND  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
ND  

Bye
Tschüs  
ND  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
ND  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
ND  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Northern Khmer  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
1,400,000.00  
26

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Khmer Krom  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Vietnam  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
1,200,000.00  
24

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Western Khmer  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Cambodia, Thailand  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
16.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
0.24 %  
99+

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
13.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
Not Available  

Native Name
Deutsch  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)  

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Cambodian, Khmer  

French Name
allemand  
khmer central  

German Name
Deutsch  
Kambodschanisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]  

Ethnicity
Germans  
Khmer, Northern Khmer  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
14  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Austroasiatic Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Not Available  

Branch
Western  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Khmer  

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
Modern Khmer  

Language Position
9  
9
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
km  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
khm  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
khm  

ISO 639 3
deu  
khm  

ISO 639 6
deus  
Not Available  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
khme1253  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
Not Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Analytic, Isolating  

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German and Khmer Language History

Comparison of German vs Khmer language history gives us differences between origin of German and Khmer language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD whereas history of Khmer language states that this language originated in 14. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on German and Khmer Language History.

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German 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 German and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Khmer language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common German Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

German vs Khmer Difficulty

The German vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.

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