1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
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
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Lao Language
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Sanskrit Language
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
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
3.2 Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
ND
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
ND
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ND
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
ND
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
ND
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
ND
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Sri Lanka
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
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Not Available
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 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Kambodschanisch
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Modern Sinhalese
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional