Countries
Cambodia
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
ND
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
ND
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
ND
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
ND
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
ND
  
آسف
  
Bye
ND
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
ND
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
khmer central
  
arabe
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Arabs
  
Origin
14
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic