1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cambodia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.7 National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
China, Taiwan
1.8 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.9 Speaking Continents
1.10 Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.11 Regulated By
Not Available
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.12 Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.13 Similar To
Lao Language
Not Available
1.14 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
2.6.2 How Many Consonants
2.7 Scripts
Khmer
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.8 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.9 Hard to Learn
2.9.1 Language Levels
4.2.3 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.2 Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
5.3 How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
5.4 Good Night
5.5 Good Evening
5.6 Good Afternoon
5.7 Good Morning
5.8 Please
5.9 Sorry
5.10 Bye
5.11 I Love You
5.12 Excuse Me
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
6.1.1 Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
6.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
6.3 Dialect 2
6.3.1 Where They Speak
Vietnam
China, United States of America
6.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
7.2 Dialect 3
7.2.1 Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
7.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
7.3 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
8.2 Speaking Population
9.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
9.4.4 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
0.01
400
10.7.4 Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
中文 (zhōngwén)
10.7.5 Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Not Available
10.7.6 French Name
10.7.7 German Name
Kambodschanisch
Chinesisch
10.8 Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Not Available
10.9 Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Han
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
11.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
11.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Chinese
11.3.3 Language Position
11.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
11.4 Scope
12 Code
12.1 ISO 639 1
12.2 ISO 639 2
12.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
12.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
12.3 ISO 639 3
12.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
12.5 Glottocode
12.6 Linguasphere
12.7 Types of Language
12.7.1 Language Type
12.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
12.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating