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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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