Countries
Cambodia
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
ND
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
ND
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
ND
  
Bonjour
  
Please
ND
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
ND
  
désolé
  
Bye
ND
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
ND
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Africa
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Français
  
French Name
khmer central
  
français
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Not Available
  
Origin
14
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Standard French
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic