1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cambodia
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Lao Language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Khmer
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Hong Kong
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
khmer central
Not Available
5.3.5 German Name
Kambodschanisch
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
Not Available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available