1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.6 National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Vietnam
1.7 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
1.8 Speaking Continents
1.9 Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Czech Republic
1.10 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
1.11 Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
1.12 Similar To
Lao Language
Chinese Language
1.13 Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Chinese 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
Not Available
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)
Cam on
3.3 How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Bạn khỏe không?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Northern Vietnamese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
North-central Vietnamese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Vietnam
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Mid-Central Vietnamese
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1.2 Total No. Of Dialects
2 How Many People Speak
2.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million91.00 million
0.13
1200
2.4 Speaking Population
2.5 Native Speakers
13.00 million75.00 million
0.13
873
2.5.1 Second Language Speakers
2.5.2 Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
tiếng việt (㗂越)
2.5.3 Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
2.5.4 French Name
2.5.5 German Name
Kambodschanisch
Vietnamesisch
2.6 Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
2.7 Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
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3.2.2 Branch
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3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
3.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Vietnamese
3.3.3 Language Position
3.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Vietnamese sign languages
3.4 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating