Countries
Cambodia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
ND
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
ND
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
ND
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
ND
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
ND
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
ND
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
ND
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
khmer central
  
serbe
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Serbs
  
Origin
14
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Standard Serbian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available