Countries
Cambodia
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
ND
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
ND
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
ND
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
ND
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
ND
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
ND
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
ND
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Russki
  
French Name
khmer central
  
russe
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Russians
  
Origin
14
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Khmer and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khmer and Russian language. Khmer word for "Hello" is ND or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Khmer Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Khmer vs Russian Difficulty
The Khmer vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khmer Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khmer and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khmer is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.