Countries
Cambodia
India, Nepal
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Not Available
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Lao Language
Hindi
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
ND
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
ND
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
ND
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ND
Good afternoon
Good Morning
ND
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Sorry
ND
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
I Love You
ND
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
ND
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Doteli
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Nepal
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Vietnam
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Nepal
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
khmer central
népalais
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Nepali
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
khme1253
nepa1254
Linguasphere
Not Available
12
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative
Khmer and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khmer and Nepali language. Khmer word for "Hello" is ND or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Khmer Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Khmer vs Nepali Difficulty
The Khmer vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khmer Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khmer and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khmer is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.