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Russian vs Khmer


Countries

Countries
Cambodia   
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
4   
11

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

Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
53   
32
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
20   
17
10   
7

How Many Consonants
33   
23
21   
11

Scripts
Khmer   
Cyrillic   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
ND   
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)   

Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)   
спасибо(spasibo)   

How Are You?
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ   
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)   

Dialects

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
30,000.00   
99+

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   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
13   
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
16.00 million   
99+
276.00 million   
6

Speaking Population
0.24 %   
99+
2.33 %   
9

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   

History

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   
7   
7

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Signed Russian   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   

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Khmer and Russian Language History

Comparison of Khmer vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Khmer and Russian language. History of Khmer language states that this language originated in 14 whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Khmer and Russian Language History.

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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.

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