Countries
India
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
India
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Marathi
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Khmer
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskar
  
ND
  
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
kaso assa?
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
ND
  
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
ND
  
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
ND
  
Please
Chike
  
ND
  
Sorry
Maf kor
  
ND
  
Bye
Adeus
  
ND
  
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Antruz
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Goa
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
7.40 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
konkani
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Konkani
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Konkanis
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
1209 A.D.
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Kokani
  
Modern Khmer
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kok
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
kok
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
kok
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
goan1235
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Konkani and Khmer 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 Konkani and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Konkani and Khmer language. Konkani word for "Hello" is Namaskar or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Konkani Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Konkani vs Khmer Difficulty
The Konkani vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Konkani Alphabets and Khmer 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 Konkani and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Konkani and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Konkani is 4 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.