1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- There is no space left between words, only between phrases or sentences in Lao language.
- The Lao alphabets has been reformed many times over the past 50 years.
1.9 Similar To
Lao Language
Thai Language
1.10 Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Khmer
Thai and Lao Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
ND
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
3.2 Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
3.3 How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
3.4 Good Night
ND
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
3.5 Good Evening
ND
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ND
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
3.7 Good Morning
ND
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
ND
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Vientiane Lao
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Laos
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Central Lao
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
pʰáːsǎː láːw
5.5 Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Tai-Kadai Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No Early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
Not Available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Isolating