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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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Olonets
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Novgorod
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
khme1253
russ1263
Linguasphere
Not Available
53-AAA-ea
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.