1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Thailand
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
1.9 Similar To
Lao Language
Lao Language
1.10 Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Khmer Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
3.3 How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
3.4 Good Night
ND
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
ND
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
3.7 Good Morning
ND
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
ND
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Isan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Vietnam
Northern Thailand
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Southern Thai
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million20.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
ภาษาไทย
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Kambodschanisch
Thailändisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
5.5 Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Tai-Kadai Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Thai Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating