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Khmer and Javanese


Javanese and Khmer


Countries

Countries
Cambodia  
Indonesia  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
1  
14

National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam  
Indonesia  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname  

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.
  
  • The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
  • The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  

Similar To
Lao Language  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages  

Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
53  
32
27  
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
20  
17
6  
3

How Many Consonants
33  
23
21  
11

Scripts
Khmer  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
36 weeks  
10

Greetings

Hello
ND  
Halo  

Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)  
matur nuwun  

How Are You?
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ  
piye kabare?  

Good Night
ND  
wengi sing apik  

Good Evening
ND  
Sugeng sọnten  

Good Afternoon
ND  
Sugeng siang  

Good Morning
ND  
Sugeng énjing  

Please
ND  
Not Available  

Sorry
ND  
Nyuwun pangapunten  

Bye
ND  
Kepanggih malih benjang  

I Love You
ND  
Kula tresna panjengan  

Excuse Me
ND  
Nuwun séwu  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Northern Khmer  
Pekalongan  

Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
26
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Khmer Krom  
Cirebon  

Where They Speak
Vietnam  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
24
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Western Khmer  
Arekan  

Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand  
Indonesia  

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
16  
15

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
16.00 million  
99+
82.00 million  
19

Speaking Population
0.24 %  
99+
1.25 %  
13

Native Speakers
13.00 million  
99+
76.00 million  
13

Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)  
basa Jawa  

Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer  
Djawa, Jawa  

French Name
khmer central  
javanais  

German Name
Kambodschanisch  
Javanisch  

Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)  

History

Origin
14  
450 AD  

Language Family
Austroasiatic Family  
Austronesian Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Indonesian  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Khmer  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Modern Khmer  
Javanese  

Language Position
Not Available  
11  
10

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
km  
jv  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
khm  
jav  

ISO 639 2/B
khm  
jav  

ISO 639 3
khm  
jav  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
khme1253  
java1253  

Linguasphere
Not Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
Agglutinative  

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All Khmer and Javanese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Khmer and Javanese dialects. Various dialects of Khmer and Javanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Khmer are spoken in different Khmer Speaking Countries whereas Javanese Dialects are spoken in different Javanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Khmer vs Javanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Khmer dialects include: Northern Khmer, Khmer Krom. Javanese dialects include: Pekalongan , Cirebon. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Khmer and Javanese Speaking population

Khmer and Javanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khmer and Javanese languages can be compared. The total count of Khmer and Javanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 %. 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 Javanese on Khmer vs Javanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khmer and Javanese Language Codes

Khmer and Javanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Khmer and Javanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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