Countries
Cambodia
  
India
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
India
  
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
  
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.
  
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Old German Language
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Prakrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Sanskrit-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
  
Good Night
ND
  
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
  
Good Evening
ND
  
शुभः सायंकालः
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
शुभ दुपार
  
Good Morning
ND
  
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
  
Please
ND
  
कृपया (kripayā)
  
Sorry
ND
  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Bye
ND
  
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
  
I Love You
ND
  
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
14.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
14.10 million
  
99+
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Not Available
  
French Name
khmer central
  
sanskrit
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Sanskrit
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Not Available
  
Origin
14
  
2000 B.C.
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
Vedic Sanskrit
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Sanskrit
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
sa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
san
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
san
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
san
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
sans1269
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Ancient
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic
  
Khmer and Sanskrit Speaking population
Khmer and Sanskrit speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khmer and Sanskrit languages can be compared. The total count of Khmer and Sanskrit Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is Not Available. 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 Sanskrit on Khmer vs Sanskrit where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Khmer and Sanskrit Language Codes
Khmer and Sanskrit language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Khmer and Sanskrit Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.