Countries
Cambodia
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Abkhazia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Lao Language
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Hello
ND
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
ND
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
ND
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
ND
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
ND
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Bye
ND
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
ND
Not available
Excuse Me
ND
Not available
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Sadz
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Turkey
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
khmer central
abkhaze
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Abkhaz people
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Abkhaz
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
abks
Glottocode
khme1253
abkh1244
Linguasphere
Not Available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative
Khmer and Abkhaz Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Khmer and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khmer and Abkhaz language. Khmer word for "Hello" is ND or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Khmer Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Khmer vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Khmer vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khmer Alphabets and Abkhaz Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Khmer and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khmer and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khmer is 44 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.