1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cambodia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Khmer
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
ND
3.2 Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
3.3 How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
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) ▶
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) ▶
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) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.24 %
Rank: 42 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million
Rank: 43 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
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) ▶
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