Countries
Cambodia
  
India
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Govenment of Goa
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Marathi
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
Namaskar
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
Dev Borem Korum
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
kaso assa?
  
Good Night
ND
  
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
Good Evening
ND
  
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
ND
  
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
Please
ND
  
Chike
  
Sorry
ND
  
Maf kor
  
Bye
ND
  
Adeus
  
I Love You
ND
  
hav tujo mog korta.
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
upkar korxi
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Antruz
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Goa
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
7.40 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
7.40 million
  
99+
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Kōṅkaṇī
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
French Name
khmer central
  
konkani
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Konkani
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
kõkɳi
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Konkanis
  
Origin
14
  
1209 A.D.
  
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
  
Kokani
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
kok
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
kok
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
kok
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
goan1235
  
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
  
Not Available
  
Khmer and Konkani 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 Konkani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khmer and Konkani language. Khmer word for "Hello" is ND or Konkani word for "Thank You" is Dev Borem Korum. Find more of such common Khmer Greetings and Konkani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Khmer vs Konkani Difficulty
The Khmer vs Konkani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khmer Alphabets and Konkani 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 Konkani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khmer and Konkani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khmer is 44 weeks while to learn Konkani time required is 4 weeks.