Countries
Cambodia
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
Hai
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
ND
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
ND
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
ND
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
ND
  
sila
  
Sorry
ND
  
maaf
  
Bye
ND
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
ND
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Not Available
  
French Name
khmer central
  
malais
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Not Available
  
Origin
14
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative
  
Khmer and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khmer and Malaysian language. Khmer word for "Hello" is ND or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Khmer Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Khmer vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Khmer vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khmer Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khmer and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khmer is 44 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.