Countries
Cambodia
  
Myanmar
  
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 in
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Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
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)
  
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
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
43.00 million
  
30
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.