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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Cambodia

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Australia, France, United States of America

1.7 Regulated By

Not Available

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.

1.9 Similar To

Lao Language

1.10 Derived From

Pali and Sanskrit Languages

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

53
Rank: 32 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

20
Rank: 17 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

33
Rank: 23 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Khmer

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

ND

3.2 Thank You

សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)

3.3 How Are You?

អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ

3.4 Good Night

ND

3.5 Good Evening

ND

3.6 Good Afternoon

ND

3.7 Good Morning

ND

3.8 Please

ND

3.9 Sorry

ND

3.10 Bye

ND

3.11 I Love You

ND

3.12 Excuse Me

ND

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Northern Khmer

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

1,400,000.00
Rank: 26 (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Khmer Krom

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Vietnam

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00
Rank: 24 (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Western Khmer

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Cambodia, Thailand

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.24 %
Rank: 42 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

13.00 million
Rank: 43 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Cambodian, Khmer

5.3.4 French Name

khmer central

5.3.5 German Name

Kambodschanisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]

5.5 Ethnicity

Khmer, Northern Khmer

6 History

6.1 Origin

14

6.2 Language Family

Austroasiatic Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Proto-Khmer

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Modern Khmer

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

km

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

khm

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

khm

7.3 ISO 639 3

khm

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

khme1253

7.6 Linguasphere

Not Available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating

Origin of Khmer language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Khmer language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Khmer language states that it was put to use in 14. The history of Khmer language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Khmer Language History.The evolution of Khmer language began with early forms such as Proto-Khmer. Modern Khmer is the standard form of Khmer language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Khmer Language.

Khmer population

Khmer population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Khmer language. Khmer language is spoken by 16.00 million people in the world. Most of the Khmer population lies in the Khmer Speaking Countries. Khmer language is spoken as first language by 13.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Khmer as second language. Get to know Khmer speaking population in detail.

Khmer writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Khmer writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Khmer language. Some languages share common writing systems. Khmer script is used by Khmer language. Learn more about . 

Information about Khmer language

Check out all the information about Khmer language here. You may find it interesting to learn Khmer Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Khmer Speaking Countries, Khmer speaking continents and Khmer Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Khmer countries knowing common Khmer Greetings will help you in communicating with Khmer people.