Countries
Cambodia
  
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
South Africa
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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English-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
Hello
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
Thank you
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
How are you?
  
Good Night
ND
  
Good Night
  
Good Evening
ND
  
Good Evening
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
Good Afternoon
  
Good Morning
ND
  
Good Morning
  
Please
ND
  
Please
  
Sorry
ND
  
Sorry
  
Bye
ND
  
Bye
  
I Love You
ND
  
I love you
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
Excuse Me
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
American English
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Hiberno-English
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Welsh English
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
1,200.00 million
  
1
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
400.00 million
  
3
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
400.00 million
  
1
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
English
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Not Available
  
French Name
khmer central
  
anglais
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Englisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Not Available
  
Origin
14
  
5th Century AD
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Standard English
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed English
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
en
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
eng
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
eng
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
eng
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
engs
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
stan1293
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
52-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic