Countries
Indonesia
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Khmer
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
ND
  
Thank You
matur nuwun
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
piye kabare?
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
wengi sing apik
  
ND
  
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
  
ND
  
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
  
ND
  
Please
Not Available
  
ND
  
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
ND
  
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
ND
  
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Cirebon
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Arekan
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million
  
19
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
basa Jawa
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
javanais
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Javanisch
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
450 AD
  
14
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Javanese
  
Modern Khmer
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
jv
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jav
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
jav
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
jav
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
java1253
  
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
  
Javanese 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 Javanese and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Javanese and Khmer language. Javanese word for "Hello" is Halo or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Javanese Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Javanese vs Khmer Difficulty
The Javanese vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Javanese 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 Javanese and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Javanese and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Javanese is 36 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.