Countries
Cambodia
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
سلام
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
ND
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
ND
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
ND
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
ND
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
ND
  
متاسف
  
Bye
ND
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
ND
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
17
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
khmer central
  
persan
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Persian people
  
Origin
14
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Persian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic
  
Khmer and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khmer and Persian language. Khmer word for "Hello" is ND or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Khmer Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Khmer vs Persian Difficulty
The Khmer vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khmer Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khmer and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khmer is 44 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.