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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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