Countries
Cambodia
China, Nepal
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Lao Language
Not Available
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Khmer
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
ND
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
ND
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
ND
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
ND
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
ND
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
ND
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
ND
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
ND
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
ND
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
ND
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
khmer central
tibétain
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
tibetan people
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
khme1253
tibe1272
Linguasphere
Not Available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Khmer and Tibetan 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 Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khmer and Tibetan language. Khmer word for "Hello" is ND or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Khmer Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Khmer vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Khmer vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khmer Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khmer and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khmer is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.