Countries
Cambodia
  
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Roman Empire
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Armenian
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Arabic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
Good Night
ND
  
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
Good Evening
ND
  
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
Good Morning
ND
  
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
Please
ND
  
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
Sorry
ND
  
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
Bye
ND
  
αντίο (antío)
  
I Love You
ND
  
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Cappadocian Greek
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Greece
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Griko
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Mariupol
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
ελληνικά
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
French Name
khmer central
  
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Neugriechisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
[eliniˈka]
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Origin
14
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Hellenic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Modern Greek
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Greek Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
el
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
ell
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
gre
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
ell
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
ells
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
gree1276
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
56-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic