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Khmer vs Burmese


Burmese vs Khmer


Countries

Countries
Cambodia   
Myanmar   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
1   
14

National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam   
Myanmar   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Bangladesh, Burma   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America   
Mon   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Myanmar Language Commission   

Interesting Facts
  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
  • The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
  • It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  

Similar To
Lao Language   
Thai Language   

Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages   
Pali Language   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
53   
32
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
20   
17
12   
9

How Many Consonants
33   
23
33   
23

Scripts
Khmer   
Tangut   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
ND   
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)   

Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)   
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)   

How Are You?
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ   
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)   

Good Night
ND   
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)   

Good Evening
ND   
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)   

Good Afternoon
ND   
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)   

Good Morning
ND   
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)   

Please
ND   
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)   

Sorry
ND   
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)   

Bye
ND   
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)   

I Love You
ND   
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)   

Excuse Me
ND   
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Northern Khmer   
Arakanese   

Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America   
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
26
2,000,000.00   
24

Dialect 2
Khmer Krom   
Tavoyan   

Where They Speak
Vietnam   
Myanmar   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
24
440,000.00   
30

Dialect 3
Western Khmer   
Intha   

Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand   
Burma   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
90,000.00   
30

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
5   
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
16.00 million   
99+
43.00 million   
30

Speaking Population
0.24 %   
99+
0.50 %   
29

Native Speakers
13.00 million   
99+
33.00 million   
28

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
10.00 million   
23

Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)   
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)   

Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer   
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa   

French Name
khmer central   
birman   

German Name
Kambodschanisch   
Birmanisch   

Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer   
Bamar people   

History

Origin
14   
1113 AD   

Language Family
Austroasiatic Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Khmer   
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese   

Standard Forms
Modern Khmer   
Modern Burmese   

Language Position
Not Available   
43   
32

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Burmese sign language   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
km   
my   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
khm   
mya   

ISO 639 2/B
khm   
bur   

ISO 639 3
khm   
mya   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
khme1253   
sout3159   

Linguasphere
Not Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating   
Analytic, Isolating   

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Khmer and Burmese Language History

Comparison of Khmer vs Burmese language history gives us differences between origin of Khmer and Burmese language. History of Khmer language states that this language originated in 14 whereas history of Burmese language states that this language originated in 1113 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Khmer and Burmese Language History.

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Khmer and Burmese 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 Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khmer and Burmese language. Khmer word for "Hello" is ND or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Khmer Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Khmer vs Burmese Difficulty

The Khmer vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khmer Alphabets and Burmese 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 Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khmer and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khmer is 44 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.

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