Countries
Cambodia
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
China, Mongolia
  
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
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
ND
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
ND
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
ND
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
ND
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
ND
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
ND
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
ND
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Not Available
  
French Name
khmer central
  
mongol
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Not Available
  
Origin
14
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
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 Mongolian 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 Mongolian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khmer and Mongolian language. Khmer word for "Hello" is ND or Mongolian word for "Thank You" is та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa). Find more of such common Khmer Greetings and Mongolian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Khmer vs Mongolian Difficulty
The Khmer vs Mongolian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khmer Alphabets and Mongolian 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 Mongolian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khmer and Mongolian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khmer is 44 weeks while to learn Mongolian time required is 44 weeks.