Countries
Cambodia
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Pan South African Language Board
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Xhosa Language
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
Sawubona
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
Ngiyabonga
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
unjani
  
Good Night
ND
  
okuhle ebusuku
  
Good Evening
ND
  
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
okuhle ntambama
  
Good Morning
ND
  
okuhle ekuseni
  
Please
ND
  
Ngiyacela
  
Sorry
ND
  
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Bye
ND
  
bye
  
I Love You
ND
  
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Qwabe
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Gabon, South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Georgia, South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Ndebele
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
12.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
isiZulu
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Isizulu, Zunda
  
French Name
khmer central
  
zoulou
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Zulu-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Zulu people
  
Origin
14
  
19
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Beatu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
urban Zulu
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Deep Zulu
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
zu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
zul
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
zul
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
zul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
zulu1248
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
99-AUT-fg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available
  
Khmer and Zulu Speaking population
Khmer and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khmer and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Khmer and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 %. 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 Zulu on Khmer vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Khmer and Zulu Language Codes
Khmer and Zulu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Khmer and Zulu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.