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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cambodia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
15
Bhojpuri
0 46
1.3 National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Lao Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
5326
Irish
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2024
Hebrew
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
3323
German
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Khmer
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
46
Bengali
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
Cebuano
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
ND
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
ND
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
ND
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ND
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
ND
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
ND
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
ND
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
ND
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
ND
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
ND
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00960,000,000.00
Macedonian
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Wu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Vietnam
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0080,000,000.00
Dzongkha
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Yue
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
Romanian
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
610
Sanskrit
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million1,051.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.24 %16.00 %
Xhosa
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million873.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
Finnish
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
khmer central
chinois
5.3.5 German Name
Kambodschanisch
Chinesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Han
6 History
6.1 Origin
14
1250 BC
6.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
NA1
Persian
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
km
zh
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
khm
zho
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
khm
chi
7.3 ISO 639 3
khm
zho
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
khme1253
sini1245
7.6 Linguasphere
Not Available
79-AAA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating

Khmer vs Chinese Speaking Countries

There are plenty of languages spoken around the world. Every country has its own official language. Compare Khmer vs Chinese speaking countries, so that you will have total count of countries that speak Khmer or Chinese language.

  • Khmer is spoken as a national language in: Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam.
  • Chinese is spoken as a national language in: China, Taiwan.

You will also get to know the continents where Khmer and Chinese speaking countries lie. Based on the number of people that speak these languages, the position of Khmer language is not available and position of Chinese language is 1. Find all the information about these languages on Khmer and Chinese.

Khmer and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Khmer vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Khmer and Chinese language. History of Khmer language states that this language originated in 14 whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. 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 Chinese Language History.

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

Khmer vs Chinese Difficulty

The Khmer vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khmer Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khmer and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khmer is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.