Countries
Cambodia
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
Habari
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
ND
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
ND
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
ND
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
ND
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
ND
  
pole
  
Bye
ND
  
bye
  
I Love You
ND
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Zanzibar island
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Dar es Salaam
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Kilwa
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
15.00 million
  
40
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
khmer central
  
swahili
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
14
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Swahili
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available
  
Khmer and Swahili Speaking population
Khmer and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khmer and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Khmer and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili 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 Swahili on Khmer vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Khmer and Swahili Language Codes
Khmer and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Khmer and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.