Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Indonesian Language
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Khmer
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
ND
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
ND
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
ND
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
ND
  
Please
sila
  
ND
  
Sorry
maaf
  
ND
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
ND
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
malais
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
14
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Modern Khmer
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Malaysian and Khmer Speaking population
Malaysian and Khmer speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malaysian and Khmer languages can be compared. The total count of Malaysian and Khmer Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Malaysian and Khmer on Malaysian vs Khmer where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Malaysian and Khmer Language Codes
Malaysian and Khmer language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Malaysian and Khmer Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.