Countries
Cambodia
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Austria
  
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
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
bok
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
kako si
  
Good Night
ND
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
ND
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
ND
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
ND
  
molim
  
Sorry
ND
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
ND
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
ND
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
khmer central
  
croate
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Croats
  
Origin
14
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Khmer and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khmer and Croatian language. Khmer word for "Hello" is ND or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Khmer Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Khmer vs Croatian Difficulty
The Khmer vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khmer Alphabets and Croatian 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 Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khmer and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khmer is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.