Countries
Cambodia
  
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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.
  
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hmong-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
  
Good Night
ND
  
zoo hmo
  
Good Evening
ND
  
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
zoo tav su
  
Good Morning
ND
  
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
  
Please
ND
  
thov
  
Sorry
ND
  
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
  
Bye
ND
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
ND
  
Kuv hlub koj
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
zam txim rau kuv
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Hmong Njua
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Laos
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Hmong Daw
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
1,600,000.00
  
21
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Hmong Do
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
4.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
3.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Hmong
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Mong
  
French Name
khmer central
  
hmong
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Miao-Sprachen
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Hmong people
  
Origin
14
  
19
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Hmong–Mien Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Hmong
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
hmv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
firs1234
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available
  
Khmer and Hmong Speaking population
Khmer and Hmong speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khmer and Hmong languages can be compared. The total count of Khmer and Hmong Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hmong language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Khmer and Hmong on Khmer vs Hmong where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Khmer and Hmong Language Codes
Khmer and Hmong language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Khmer and Hmong Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.