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
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
Please
ND
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
ND
  
Not Available
  
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
1,400,000.00
  
26
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Caucasus
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
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
  
Origin
14
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Abkhaz
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
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.